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In Sufferlandria, only one book is allowed. This is it. 1." One passage (no more, no less) should be read before suffering. 2." Reading in any other situation is strictly forbidden. 3." The Book must be suitably displayed in a Bike Torture Chamber. Displaying in other rooms is not advised as it may fall into the hands of nonSufferlandrians, small children or the weak.

"I will beat my ass today to kick yours tomorrow." The Sufferfest

He who suffers much will know much. Greek proverb

Luca, Italy!

"Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery." Bertrand Russell

@brixtontri, UK!

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. Chuck Palahniuk

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. Oscar Wilde

Brad, UK!

Dalton!

Most people are quite happy to suffer in silence if they are sure everybody knows they are doing it. Anon.

Hector-Brian-Chris, Iraq!

Harry, USA!

If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive. Elbert Hubbard

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. Paulo Coelho

Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined. Lesley Hazelton

Steven!

Michael! UK! Andrew,

Suffering is the true cement of love. Paul Sabatier

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. Horace

Jon & Lindsie, USA!

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. Buddha

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness. Ovid

David!

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. William Wordsworth

TS, USA!

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Jon, USA!

Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. Romans 5:3-4

Glen!

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. Aristotle

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival." Winston Churchill

Cassandra, Singapore!

Ciarin, Ireland!

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Khalil Gibran

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." Helen Keller

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. Anais Nin

All that you suffer is all that you are.! ! Smashing Pumpkins!

David, UK!

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. Ben Okri

One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor De Casseres

Ken, USA!

Andrew!

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming." Helen Keller

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Friedrich Nietzsche

Three female triathletes in one cramped BTC!

Andrew!

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain." Karl Marx

Trevor, France!

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. Franz Kafka

Kjetil, Norway!

Keith, USA!

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. Arthur Schopenhauer

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. William Butler Yeats

John!

Pete!

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering and it's all over much too soon. Woody Allen

Joshua, USA!

"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering? Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Geo!

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning." Benjamin Disraeli

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. Franz Kafka

Michael!

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering." Jane Austen

Raymond!

Colin, Afghanistan!

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. Marcel Proust

Phil!

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. Arthur Schopenhauer

No person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work. Thomas Carlyle

Adam, UK!

James, Germany!

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. William Faulkner

Michael!

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. Tennessee Williams

Jimmy & Kevin!

Rodney!

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. Henri-Frdric Amiel

Steph!

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. Anatole France

David, France! Trevor, Mexico!

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. H. G. Wells

Daniel, Sweden!

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. Michel de Montaigne

Diedre!

Kevin!

Happiness is not a reward it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. Robert Green Ingersoll

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. Miguel de Unamuno

Mike!

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. John Calvin

Steve, UK!

True, I am in love with suffering. Saint Ignatius

Beth!

One must chose in life between boredom and suffering. Madame de Stael

Paul & Kelly, USA!

Christiano!

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys. Emil Zatopek

Matthew, USA!

Suffering is part of the divine idea. Henry Ward Beecher

Jamie!

Evan, USA!

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. Ben Okri

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering. John Cleese

Simon!

I believe in people, especially suffering people. ! Pat Buckley!

Alex, UK (Yes, this is a jail cell)!

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. Sidonie Gabrielle Colett
It goes without saying that Colett has been denied a visa into Sufferlandria.

"Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some. Adam Craig

Mark!

The greater the suffering, the greater the pleasure. That is natures payback to riders for the homage they pay her by suffering. Tim Krabbe

Jon, UK!

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Gavin, UK!