{"quotes":[{"text":"On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of human existence were not abstractions: they were embodied in human suffering.","author":"Frank X. Barron","tags":["compassion-for-others","emotional-distress","emotional-pain","human-suffering","mental-hospital","mental-illness","mental-illness","psychiatric-hospital","suffering","unspeakable"],"id":109663,"author_id":"Frank+X.+Barron"},{"text":"Sometimes it seems like 'pain' is too obvious a place to turn for inspiration. Pain isn't always deep, anyway. Sometimes it's awful and that's it. Or boring. Surely other things can be as profound as pain.","author":"Ellen Forney","tags":["art","bipolar","emotional-distress","emotional-pain","inspiration","mental-disorder","pain"],"id":472362,"author_id":"Ellen+Forney"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}