"experience of suffering" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe the act of going through or enduring pain, hardship, or distress. Example: "The novel portrayed the protagonist's experience of suffering during the war, highlighting the physical and emotional toll it took on him."
Often these notions are contrasted with the experience of suffering in the world.
What they all have in common is the sense of a terrible past, the shared experience of suffering.
And yet, of course, we all know folk who have apparently grown through the experience of suffering.
"Trying to Remember" is a perfect title – maybe this portrays the experience of suffering from memory degeneration?
Wilde's captivity might best be understood as an extended imitatio of Christ, where he becomes who he is through the experience of suffering.
Even in disease or other forms of internal rupture, a living being is not simply negated but maintains itself in the negative experience of suffering.
Epictetus, you'll recall, was born a slave, and tried to make sense of his life experience of suffering once he became free.
In doing this, they looked to western Christianity, African-American theology, and their own experience of suffering as sources of inspiration, while creating a new religious culture and political orientation to liberate their people from European domination.
"Close the GAP day is about our ability to determine our own health through our actions," says Dr Barbara Mariposa, who came up with the concept partly in response to her own experience of suffering from depression.
Fabrice Muamba is to spend the foreseeable future recuperating and coming to terms with the traumatic experience of suffering a cardiac arrest during Bolton Wanderers' FA Cup quarter-final at Tottenham Hotspur on 17 March.
Arabella Dorman, 39, from London said: "I definitely felt the risk was considerable", she said of the experience of suffering for her art to portray the everyday reality for soldiers on the frontline and a people devastated by bloodshed.
