“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.”— Anna Funder, amazon.com
“I don’t think I should accept other people’s suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don’t want others to suffer.”— Elie Wiesel, quizlet.com
“And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”— J. K. Rowling, harvardmagazine.com
“I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.com
“'How wonderful to be alive,' he thought. 'But why does it always hurt?'”— Boris Pasternak, amazon.com
“Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and it’s spectacular.”— Joseph Campbell, billmoyers.com
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pinprick, but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of…”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com