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Suffering Quotes - Page 62

We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering at once.

Julian Beck (1972). “The Life of the Theatre: The Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People”, Amadeus Press

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

We do not suffer by accident.

Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.124

We can always begin again.

Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

Who can take away suffering without entering it?

Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.72, Image

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.

Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.119

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt