Suffering Quotes - Page 126

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.

Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.

Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness of this moment. You can argue with it, but that's suffering.

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.

We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.