#on suffering

[the-most-sublime-fool]

But what of the adults made as children to witness and endure things monstrous, intolerable? What are they owed? They are on every full train, in every medium-size workplace, child survivors in grown-up bodies. If they care to self-identify, oh, we've got a job for you—you be Guardian of Memory, you be Witness, you be indefatigable Truth Teller, you be Moral Lightning Rod. Won't you, dear survivor? Don't let the rest of us forget or dream it never happened.

Maria Tumarkin, Axiomatic

[metamorphesque]

The Ambiguity of Suffering, E. M. Cioran (translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston)

[metamorphesque]

The Monopoly of Suffering, E. M. Cioran (translated by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston)

[thequotablescollector]

"Look, suffering doesn’t make you better, it just makes you suffer!" – Art Spiegelman

[variations-on-a-flat]

I think the reason people are resistant to the idea that "suffering is just suffering" is a reasonable and pretty universal desire to make sense of what is happening to us. This doesn't make those looking for meaning or purpose in suffering automatically people who perpetuate it. You do in fact develop things like coping strategies and resiliency by going through hard things.

The real issue is that there is no need to manufacture suffering. The world and all its unpredictability will offer to plenty of suffering. Knowing where to find resources is itself a type of problem solving. Taking away problem solving resources does not in fact make suffering more meaningful. It just makes it more difficult to bear with grace or strength.

[terrorignitis]

I'm in pain because the day is ending and somehow l am never healing.

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters

[indigoluvers]

↪let down by radiohead / no longer human by dazai osamu / confessions of a mask by mishima yukio / untitled poem by @indigoluvers / let down by radiohead

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