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 deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

    “The notion of some infinitely gentle
    Infinitely suffering thing.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist’s office would be full of luminous ideas.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)