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"I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls. We all have, doubtless, but I like the suffering soul which confesses itself. I distrust this hard, this shiny, this enameled content."

Virginia Woolf

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"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering."

Fyodor Dostoyvsky

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"It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering."

Victor Frankl

"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."

Arthur Schopenhauer

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"Suffering is voiceless in the metaphorical sense that silence becomes a sign of something ultimately unknowable. It implies an experience not just disturbing or repugnant but inaccessible to understanding. in this sense, suffering encompasses an irreducible nonverbal dimension that we cannot know-not at least in any normal mode of knowing-because it happens in a realm beyond language. The quality of such suffering remains as blank to thought as the void opened up by a scream."

David D. Morris, in the Chapter About Suffering: Voice, Genre, and Moral Community in Social Suffering
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