Suffering Quotes - Page 170

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

Suffering saints are living seed.

It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.

No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.

To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really.

It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering.

Bodies and minds need breaks or the work suffers, this has been proven and reproven to the point where we don't even need to post links to support it.

Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.