Suffering Response Quotes

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?

She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer’s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination—but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.