Beyond politics the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions broken families and broken souls.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

People in Afghanistan want peace including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families they have relatives they have children they are suffering a tough time.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Patriotism in America as I understand it is a matter of suffering when the country fails to live up to its promises or actively betrays them.

Unfortunately after Sept. 11 there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

The greater the state the more wrong and cruel its patriotism and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

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.

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