Suffering Quotes - Page 128

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer.

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

Some people suffer from the green-eyed monster called envy.

I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because print media is suffering.

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.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

Your soul suffers if you live superficially.

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

Suffering brings experience.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

By suffering comes wisdom.

It is through suffering that learning comes.

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.

When I played the Shins, I changed someone's life. When I play Belle and Sebastian in a pivotal scene in my next movie...well, let's just say I made sure I that I can't be held legally responsible for all the deaths people will suffer out of shock upon hearing them. They're a terrific band.