Quotes by Suffering We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity. A. B. Simpson sufferinghumanityyears The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death. A. C. Bradley sufferingherostories The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense. A. C. Bradley vicessufferingmen Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly. A. C. Bradley takensufferinghero I don't look at myself as suffering. A. J. Langer sufferinglooks Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet. A. N. Wilson dietsvegetarian-dietsuffering Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame. A. S. Byatt heartbreakpainsuffering Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. Abba Eban sufferingmissingmen My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, Those things that hurt instruct! I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them. Abdul Kalam sufferinghurtpeople suffering is the essence of success!!! Abdul Kalam essencesuffering I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do. Abdul Sattar Edhi proudsufferingmen posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors. Abigail Adams hardshipsufferingblessing ...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible. Abraham Joshua Heschel limitssufferingevil The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity Abraham Joshua Heschel sufferinghumanitypeople Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy. Abraham Lincoln governmentsufferingloss Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage. Abraham Lincoln majoritypoliticalsuffering We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine. Abraham Verghese medicinesufferingyears God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace. Abraham Verghese judgingsufferingthinking A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering. Ada Leverson causessufferinglife-is I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff. Adam Rapp scarysufferingdream1234567891011»
