"When we refuse to suffer, when we refuse to feel, your life becomes a bore, and you're suffering even more," he sang.
When he rouses himself from torpor, however, he becomes inspired, and, in the end, we think he's not crazy but a man who refuses to suffer anymore.
On the brink of turning 40 (in August), Theron is still that girl in some respects, still demanding to be heard and refusing to suffer fools, often with some colourful language.
Anyone who has dealings with the 46-year-old quickly realises much of his life has been spent proving that behaving with gentlemanly courtesy is not necessarily incompatible with constantly challenging established orthodoxy, refusing to suffer fools and being ready to confront big decisions.
In an increasingly unequal and unpredictable world, the dispossessed refuse to suffer quietly.
There may be an appeal in the trope of female suffering (think Princess Diana or Marilyn Monroe), but Kahlo ferociously refused to merely suffer.
Those who refused to recant suffered hardships and many decided to leave the colony.
Maria initially fled Mali with her father, who refused to let her suffer this traditional practice, and Joel followed soon after.
Several times he tried to press his umbrella on her, but Fatou knew the walk from Acton Central to Andrew's bed-sit was long and she refused to let him suffer on her account.
That includes claims of Christopher Humble, he said, insisting that Christopher lost weight because he refused to eat and suffered scars after an accidental fall.
