Quotes by Suffering I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well. Jeb Bush foolweaknesssuffering we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth. Jeffrey Archer differentsufferingway Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life. Jeffrey Eugenides eyesufferingblue While the richest people on earth pray to get richer, the rest of the world begs for intervention with their faces pressed to the window, watching us drink our coffee, unruffled by their suffering. Jen Hatmaker coffeesufferingpeople The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got. Henry David Thoreau doctorssolitudesuffering I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold. Henry David Thoreau goldsufferingwant If our bodies aren't being taken care of then our work starts to suffer and we're not getting the most from our daily lives. Jennifer Aniston caretakensuffering There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't. Jennifer James rewardssufferingtwo I like these boots," I told Vayl. "Do you think they'd sell them to me cheap? I keep ruining mine." "Since when do you fret over money?" he asked with amusement. "I was not even sure you knew what to do with it." I shrugged. "A women has needs." "Still." said Cole. "Gosh, Jaz, why didn't you say something to me? I'd never let you suffer. Jennifer Rardin sufferingneedsthinking As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology. Jennifer Stone technologysufferingmind Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone. Jennifer Young painawakeningsuffering There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating. Jenny Diski artistsufferingcheating Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do. Jenny Lawson sufferingbookpeople The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three. Jenny Offill buddhistsufferingmoving For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror. Jens Peter Jacobsen sufferingminddream Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our lives with some imaginary consolation.Whatever is,is.Imagintion! It's so paltry!Yes,when you've grown older,as I have,you occasionally make do with the poor comedy of the imagination. Jens Peter Jacobsen imaginationsufferingmen I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering! Jeremy Bentham sufferinganimalthinking Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. Jeremy Collier sufferingmindrivers We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering. Jeremy Gilley sufferingwarworld Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others. Jeremy Bentham fruitlanguagesuffering«96979899100101102103104105106»
