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The Book of Suffering features Bike Torture Chamber photos from Sufferlandrians around the world.These are our temples these are the places we worship. This is where we all suffer. ! When available, rst name and country are listed as credits. If you see your BTC but no name, please drop me an email and Ill x it. ! You can see more BTCs (and submit your own) at: ! www.thesufferfest.com/bike-torture-chamber/!

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 non-Sufferlandrians, 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 !

"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 !

John!

Pete!

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

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

Joshua, USA!

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

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!

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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