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:

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

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    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

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    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)