Suffering Quotes - Page 38

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

If we knew what people had been through, their sorrow and suffering, we would not be so quick to judge.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.

Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.

The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize that we're part of one big family.