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:

    “The notion of some infinitely gentle
    Infinitely suffering thing.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.”
    —Tony Benn (b. 1925)

    “They sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Job 2:13.