Suffering Quotes - Page 118

one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

I suffer mornings most of all I feel so powerless and small By ten o'clock I'm back in bed Fighting the jury in my head

Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this.

Hopeless are those who suffers the curse of heaven-so be hopeful

We learn from the things we suffer.

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.

Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.

All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

Recognize that everyone suffers in their own life, even if you don't see it; even if you think they've got it easy.

Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.

All the great things that I get to be curious about, see, and experience because I'm sensitive to the world, it also opens up these areas where there's a lot of pain and suffering. You're just aware, aware, aware.