Quotes about suffering
suffering who-you-are
Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are. Tariq Ramadan
suffering
We must learn to suffer more. T. S. Eliot
suffering fancy gentle
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
suffering steps goodbye-love
When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step. Sylvia Ashton-Warner
suffering doe compassionate
To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize. Susan Sontag
suffering
We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism. Vance Havner
suffering form clear
Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it. Richard Paul Evans
suffering atheism kind
Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. Richard Dawkins
suffering mistress bookstores
Jerome sighed and set down his fork. "Are you still doing that, Georgie? Don't I suffer enough without having to endure the humiliation of a succubus who moonlights as a Christmas elf?" "You always said I should quit the bookstore and find something else to do," I reminded him. "Yes, but that was because I thought you'd go on to do something respectable. Like become a stripper or the Mayor's mistress. Richelle Mead
suffering sometimes
Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom. Ryan Miller
suffering ifs
If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly. Victor Hugo
suffering height ifs
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
suffering complaining carts
The ox suffers, the cart complains.
suffering today ethics
Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets. Rita Mae Brown
suffering morality treats
To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering. Sam Harris
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 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