Suffering Quotes - Page 137

No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me." "Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for the whole world?" It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it. "I can't let Nico be in any more danger," I said. "I owe that much to his sister. I…let them both down. I'm not going to let that poor kid suffer any more.

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.

Guys do ridiculous things for love." Adrian reached into his pocket and held up a pack of cigarettes. "Do you know how badly I want one of these right now? Yet I suffer, Rose. All for you.

At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.

It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos have no nervous system. But that's not an issue discussed publicly. The issue is, Are they human? If you are an absolutist moralist, you say, "These cells are human, and therefore they deserve some kind of special moral treatment."

We spend, you know, 48 hours on bogus stories, and the American people suffer. So I do think it is a problem. And I think that the media needs to, in some cases, not every case, but, in some cases, really needs to get its act together.

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

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.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

Suffering brings me so close to God.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.