“ Just a glance at the ragged mess around her fingernails communicated more than the lenghiest essays on the nature of distress. Mark Z. Danielewski
“ It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eye… Criss Jami
“ Expectations are at war, if good feeling and discomfort clash. When we are expecting zest and joy, our good karma may be ousted by distress and frustration, if negative downbeat waves are emitted. Jus… Erik Pevernagie
“ Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt. Donna Lynn Hope
