"Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Suffering, Boredom, Disability, Perception

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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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"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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?"

"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."

"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..."

"We must love one another or die."

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

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

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"Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry."

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"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

"Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours."

"When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time."