Quotes by Suffering If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression. Oswald Chambers exaltationalivesuffering Often they benefit who suffer wrong. Ovid benefitssuffering It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering. Paramahansa Yogananda sufferingspirituallying One of the few times I'm hit emotionally is when I listen to the tapes sadists make of torturing their victims. There the person is currently suffering, you can hear them suffer, and that calls out for an empathic response. But when they're dead, when they're no longer suffering, when it's over, it's hard to feel empathetic for the corpse. Park Dietz tapevictimsuffering Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head. Pankaj Mishra humanssufferingmade Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. Oscar Wilde kindsufferingworld National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering. Park Geun-hye koreansorrowsuffering Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering. Parker J. Palmer violencesufferinghappens The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God. Paramahansa Yogananda sufferingplaydirectors There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering. Patanjali grieflightsuffering The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering. Patch Adams physiciansrolessuffering We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack of elegant explanations supporting good policies, but one that suffers bad policies due to system and meta-system level incentives. Patri Friedman incentivessufferingideas Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell. Pat Robertson hellsufferingchristian Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. Oscar Wilde momentssufferinglong I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer. Patricia Cornwell painsufferingpeople I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering. Oscar Wilde extravagancesufferingsorry 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. Patsy Mink racismsufferingcountry It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. Oscar Wilde sufferingeasysympathy There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. Oscar Wilde sorrowgriefsuffering I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike. Paul Brand sufferingdoeattitude«150151152153154155156157158159160»
