Quotes about suffering
suffering fiction
That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones? Jodi Picoult
suffering machines lunatic-asylums
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. Margaret Atwood
suffering remember forget
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. Marcus Tullius Cicero
suffering remember
He who suffers, remembers.
suffering
Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly... Larry Wall
suffering purpose causes
One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong. Lafcadio Hearn
suffering world kind
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. Oscar Wilde
suffering body harm
Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state. Mark Twain
suffering tariffs spirit
Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form. Mark Frost
suffering matter towns
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. John Green
suffering nihilism problem
the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.
suffering tone band
But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness
suffering fascists enjoy
The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans. Paul Erdos
suffering tools moral
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act. Paul Farmer
suffering causes tests
Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth. Martha Beck
suffering world midst
To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world. Oswald Chambers
suffering alive exaltation
If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression,
suffering
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade. Michel de Montaigne
suffering world harmony
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.
suffering
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
suffering enlightenment
No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center. Marianne Williamson
suffering great-work yeah
I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer. Frank Ocean
suffering-of-others people littles
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people. George C. Wallace
suffering endurance causes
Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. Christoph Martin Wieland
suffering poverty unemployment
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. Hans Kung
suffering doe midst
God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.
suffering way never-forget
A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget. Floyd Patterson
suffering institutions rational
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. George Santayana
suffering able consciousness
What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love. Fyodor Dostoevsky
suffering dignity worthy
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
suffering atonement achieve
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.
suffering may want
I want to suffer so that I may love.
suffering wells idle
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?