"Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand."

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"Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand."

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"Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real."

Stephen King, American Author

Suffering, Pain, Regret, Truth, Wisdom

"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Suffering, Acceptance, Faith, Reality

"As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

Suffering, Pain, Darkness, Emotion, Fear

"Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Suffering, Happiness, Right, Life

"Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?"

Stephen King, American Author

Suffering, Regret, Truth, Power, Life

"The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith."

Anais Nin, American Author

Suffering, Revenge, Faith, Loss, World

"More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat..."

Saul Bellow, American Novelist

Suffering, Pain, Humanity, Loss

"We must love one another or die."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Suffering, Love, Existence, Life, Death

"For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Suffering, Pain, Death, Endurance

"It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel."

Ally Condie, American Author

Suffering, Pain, Choice, Struggle, War

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"The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive."

Awareness

"You can't change the world you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things."

Environment

"I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides."

Conservation

"Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man."

Hope

"I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal."

Music

"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."

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"People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them."

Fashion