Quotes about suffer
suffering survivor
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it. Samuel Johnson
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
suffering child-abuse results
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering. Stefan Molyneux
suffering inferiors
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer. Thomas Mann
suffering-pain world-suffering people
The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. Thomas Merton
suffering-pain pain-and-suffering strive
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. Thomas Carlyle
suffering world west
We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world. Silvia Cartwright
suffering elements might
Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any. Sigmund Freud
suffering needs world
Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.
suffering contentment merit
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. Pietro Aretino
suffering frailty conversion
Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability. Pope Francis
suffering realization way
Suffering is the way for Realization of God. Ramana Maharshi
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 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 important musician
You're a musician, it is important that you suffer! Russell Brand
suffering needs machines
TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that. Rose Byrne
suffering workplace kind
Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping. Romola Garai
suffering apprehension perpetual
It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension. Julius Caesar
suffering would-be affliction
Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them. Saint Francis de Sales
suffering doe serving-others
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering. Saint Augustine
suffering too-much want
For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.
suffering ordinary levels
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'. Winston Graham
suffering christianity inevitable
The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering. Winston Churchill
suffering way rewards
All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof. William Tyndale
suffering fundamentals principles
Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle. Yusuf Hamied