Quotes by Suffering The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences. Arthur Rimbaud sufferingtryinglong This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings. Arthur Schopenhauer sufferingsightorder I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering. Arthur Schopenhauer sufferingprayerbeautiful How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action? Arthur Schopenhauer sufferingactionmoving All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering. Arthur Schopenhauer free-willsufferingneeds All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering. Arthur Schopenhauer sufferingneeds Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself. Arthur Schopenhauer human-lifeglittersuffering Don't let yourself suffer needlessly, find a need to suffer. Ashleigh Brilliant sufferingneeds Why is there still so much pain and suffering being produced when there's so little demand for it? Ashleigh Brilliant demandpainsuffering As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but I might suffer somehow if other people are being spied on and blocked from doing important work that might have a collective benefit down the road. The personal doesn't necessarily translate to the social. Astra Taylor importantsufferingpeople The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a display the thing would have been just to appear and dazzle the beholders. But for Him Who came to heal and to teach the way was not merely to dwell here, but to put Himself at the disposal of those who needed Him, and to be manifested according as they could bear it, not vitiating the value of the Divine appearing by exceeding their capacity to receive it. Athanasius of Alexandria dazzlesufferingmen We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. Athol Fugard diversitysufferingjustice Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking. Atul Gawande sacrificerisksuffering The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever. Auberon Waugh holidaysufferinglaw I dont often meet people who want to suffer cardiovascular disease or whatever, and we get those things as a result of the lifelong accumulation of various types of molecular and cellular damage. Aubrey de Grey diseasesufferingpeople Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain. Audre Lorde painsufferinghands what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority Audre Lorde moralvoicesuffering The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering. Audrey Hepburn sufferinghumanitypeople ...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation? Audrey Hepburn abusesufferingchildren On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear. Audrey Hepburn sufferingagehands«1314151617181920212223»
