We used to call them the storm of the century but now we're seeing what happens if we don't act fast enough - and real human beings are suffering because of that.
When I took my shirt off against Caen, everybody asked what these new tattoos were. I had 15 removable tattoos on my body; they are the names of real people who are suffering from hunger in the world.
I had a few problems. I didn't realise it until I started going to therapy. I did it for 10 years, two days a week, and pretty quickly I understood that a lot of my suffering, many of my issues, were rooted in my realising that I was gay when I was a little boy. I knew I was different. That made me very fragile.
Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.
Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.
When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.
Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.
In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, filiform elements resembling flagellae which were moving very rapidly, displacing the neighbouring red cells.
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!
The reward of suffering is experience.
All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.
At the heart of all romanticism is suffering.
