Quotes by Suffering All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy. Bertrand Russell sufferingpeopleenemy [The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. Bertrand Russell sufferingpeoplethinking There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends. Bertrand Russell causessufferingmay People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations. Bessie Head sufferingcharacterpeople Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity. Beth Gibbons insecuritysufferingart Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives. Betty Dodson sufferingnaturalfirsts ...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit. Betty Friedan growing-upsufferingmind If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them. Betty Smith if-you-love-someonepainsuffering She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much. Betty Smith girllonelysuffering They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted. Betty Smith anguishcompassionsuffering As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone. Betty Smith sufferinggonelong Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter. Betty Smith richpersonssuffering We never will get a full situation of open transparency, but we should seek to bring forth the major concerns about injustice and suffering and dishonesty. This needs to come into the open or there will never be peace in the hearts of us violated. Beyers Naude sufferingjusticeheart When we will think deeply, then we will realize that enjoyment is short lasting and reality of it is suffering. Bhakti Charu Swami sufferingrealitythinking Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society. Bianca Jagger privilegedmemberssuffering Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything. Big Sean delayupsetsuffering If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life. Bikram Choudhury ifssufferingeasy Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years? Bikram Choudhury yogasufferingyears To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped. Bill Ayers unnecessaryshouldsuffering I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. Bill Ayers hopelesssufferingmother«1819202122232425262728»
