Suffering Quotes
What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.
But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.
I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop it, Molly.
Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.
Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.
... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.
Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awakening. I had to become proactive and take a stand.
History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles. -P 462 Master Tozay to Eona
Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but they did, actually.
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.
If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve.
We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.
When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.
For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.
I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.
Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.
Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated.
I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible disaster. I like the idea of change without Apocalypse.
You don't change people's hearts by making them suffer. You harm yourself as well as them.
Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.
The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.
Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.
This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.
Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.
I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.
Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.
All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.
We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.
We're still benefiting from the sacrifices of people long dead, but we're also suffering from their errors.