Suffering Quotes - Page 82

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.

When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit.

Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions of hope, and are certainly harder to bear. If I must deceive myself, I should prefer to stay on the side of confidence, for I shall lose no more there and shall suffer less.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

At the end of my suffering/there was a door.

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.

If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

He who is attached to things will suffer much.

I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you prefer that your appliances work well, then when your washing machine breaks down you won't compound the problem by superimposing your uncomfortable emotions on the situation.

I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you.