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.

The regret of unfinished business is particularly oppressive, even haunting in its oppressive grief.

He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.

I smile when I want to cry. I laugh when I want to die.