“There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.”

“Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you.”

Vernon Howard (1918–1992) American writer

“What I know is that suffering creates suffering and the ONLY way to change that in the world is to become JOY and begin infecting other people with it. If you become joy, you will not make other people unhappy and the cycle of suffering… ends. Why do I care? Because I am you. Your suffering is the world's suffering. You can not suffer and not have it affect EVERYTHING in existence.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

“Remember that sufferings like medals have also a reverse side and ponder over the words of blind Helen Keller" Although the world is full of sufferings, it is full of the overcoming of it."”

Peter de Noronha (1897–1970) Indian businessman

“Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.”

Annie Proulx book The Shipping News

“Suffering is our capital, our natural resource. Not oil or gas – but suffering. It is the only thing we are able to produce consistently. I'm always looking for the answer: why doesn't our suffering convert into freedom? Is it truly all in vain? Chaadayev was right: Russia is a country without memory, it's a space of total amnesia, a virgin consciousness for criticism and reflection.”

Svetlana Alexievich (1948) Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer

“People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”

Neil Jordan (1950) Irish filmmaker and fiction writer

“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.”

Frank Herbert book Dune Messiah