Suffering Quotes - Page 41

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.

A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.

I probably don`t show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be expected to worry a tiger - even if a tiger can be said to worry about anything at all - and certainly cannot be expected to worry its genes.

You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and few are the ones who know how to secure release from their troubles.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

The good news of the kingdom is not freedom from hardship, suffering, and loss. It is the news of a Redeemer who has come to rescue me from myself.

We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not have to suffer the same discrimination.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.