„When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.“

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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„Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.“
— Anaïs Nin
„We live in the false as long as we have not suffered. But when we begin to suffer, we enter the truth only to regret the false.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!“
— Edgar Allan Poe
„We suffer: the external world begins to exist...; we suffer to excess: it vanishes. Pain instigates the world only to unmask its unreality.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind — and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.“
— William Faulkner
„Mother, when you're disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus' mother in the museum!“
— Tennessee Williams