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I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

— Patti Smith

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

— Colm Toibin

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.

— David Ben-Gurion

Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.

— John Tavener

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

— Hugh Masekela

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

— Walter Kaufmann

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

— Willie Nelson

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

— Naomi Watts

A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.

— John O'Donohue

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

— Edward Dahlberg

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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