Suffering

Suffering

Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, is an experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual. Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of affective phenomena.

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Famous quotes containing the word suffering:

    “Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.”
    —Tony Benn (b. 1925)

    “Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)