Quote by Roland Barthes

“She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Because suffering was a part of life, and without it you grew prideful and full of ego.”

— Shannon Mayer

“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under…

— John Brunner

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem…

— Kay Larson

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”

— Allan Lokos

“Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.”

— Chang-rae Lee

“Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor…”

— Émile Gaboriau

“i thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables, i thought about my…

— jonathan safran foer

“Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.”

— Jay McInerney

“Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are. Stop for a second and look at…

— Brad Warner

“Suffering is just part of the great tapestry of life.”

— Marie Giordano