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:

    “The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.”
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

    “It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “Only those who have endured the greatest suffering can become the greatest people.”
    —Chinese proverb.