„In order to know about the illnesses of society, you have to know what men are suffering from, how they suffer.“

— Ernesto Che Guevara

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„On the frontiers of the self: "What I have suffered, what I am suffering, no one will ever know, not even I."“
— Emil M. Cioran
„But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know it? The consciousness of misery is too serious a disease to figure in an arithmetic of agonies or in the catalogues of the Incurable. It belittles the prestige of hell, and converts the slaughterhouses of time into idyls. What sin have you committed to be born, what crime to exist? Your suffering like your fate is without motive. To suffer, truly to suffer, is to accept the invasion of ills without the excuse of causality, as a favor of demented nature, as a negative miracle...“
— Emil M. Cioran
„Hungary is a country that has suffered a lot with communism in the past, a people that knows what dictatorship is. The Brazilian people still do not know what dictatorship is, do not know what it is to suffer at the hands of these people.“
— Jair Bolsonaro
„No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.“
— Bram Stoker
„My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„You'll never know the hurt I suffer, nor the pain I rise above, and I'll never know the same about you…“
— Bob Dylan