Quotes about suffering
suffering warning danger
Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive. Ursula K. Le Guin
suffering born homesickness
He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in. Thomas Pynchon
suffering-and-death doubt dying
Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are close to me. And no doubt I project these fears on those around me and those to come, which makes it impossible for me to understand why everyone isn't an antinatalist, just as I have to assume pronatalists can't understand why everyone isn't like them. Thomas Ligotti
suffering looks body
Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada
suffering demand care
If you drink too much, you go out and you harm to somebody, you have to suffer the consequences. Same way with health matters. You don't have the right to demand that someone else take care of you because of your habits. Ron Paul
suffering-of-others indifference traitor
He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human. Saadi
suffering-of-others bears monsters
One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude. Susan Ertz
suffering degrees organisation
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things. Susan George
suffering individual spite
I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life. Sufjan Stevens
suffering way spirit
Life can dictate that we suffer physical restrictions and limitations, but no one has the ability to restrict or in any way demean our spirit unless we agree to it. Sonia Choquette
suffering shows
I probably don`t show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else. Steve Irwin
suffering disease realizing
I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody. Mother Teresa
suffering politician consequence
I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences. Peter Tosh
suffering idlers
Idlers do not make history: they suffer it! Peter Kropotkin
suffering solutions
The solution to our suffering is our suffering! Peter Kreeft
suffering christ values
Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].
suffering causes majors
Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering, Pema Chodron
suffering noble impermanence
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
suffering illusion
Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
suffering looks want
If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify it. Peter Cohan
suffering ingredients hospitality
suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient. Phyllis McGinley
suffering add
As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD. Pitbull
suffering-of-others space helping
There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on. Teju Cole
suffering insult response
We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths. Randall Robinson
suffering doe
Suffering does not discriminate. Shania Twain
suffering students emotion
A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason. Shunryu Suzuki
suffering stronger trouble
Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before. Shinzo Abe
suffering despair existential
Despair is suffering without meaning. Viktor E. Frankl
suffering encounters existentialism
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
suffering heroic masochistic
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
suffering spirit kind
This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
suffering meaning-of-life mans-search-for-meaning
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
suffering concern humans
All human suffering concerns each human being Vaclav Havel