Quotes by Suffering At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning. Emile M. Cioran eventsmomentssuffering My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are. Emile M. Cioran ignorantknowingsuffering They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady Emily Dickinson testssufferingage Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime. Empress Dowager Cixi unhappysufferinglifetime I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they cry. People who felt nothing in this life cannot sing. Enrico Caruso sufferingfeelingspeople Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. Emile M. Cioran appetitepowersuffering She can't afford to commit more troops,' Holly whispered. 'The gate is her priority, and she needs to have as many Berserkers watching her back as possible. We are secondary at this point.' 'That will be her undoing,' Artemis gasped, already suffering under the weight of the flak jacket. 'Artemis Fowl will never be secondary.' 'I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?' said Holly. Eoin Colfer holliesprioritiessuffering Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power. Epictetus powersufferingtrying This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant. Emile M. Cioran uniquesufferingforever There is no limit to suffering. Emile M. Cioran limitssuffering We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering. Emile M. Cioran momentssufferingbelieve The question is absurd: when you ask, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then does He allow suffering?', what you are really asking is, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then can He not make me (the questioner) - who is just as much a part of a universe in which there is suffering as is any other part - be at the same time the exact same questioner, but one who is now part and parcel of a universe in which there is no suffering?' Which, reduced down, is the same thing as asking, 'Why can there not be, at the same time, X and the preclusion of X?' Emo Philips asking-whypowerfulsuffering Writer's block is a myth. I never see the gardeners suffering from gardening block. Emo Philips gardeningblocksuffering Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation. Emma Goldman visionsufferingstruggle Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering. Epicurus philosophersufferingdoe Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance. Eric Clapton sufferinghelpingneeds I must die. I must be imprisoned. I must suffer exile. But must I die groaning? Must I whine as well? Can anyone hinder me from going into exile with a smile? The master threatens to chain me: what say you? Chain me? My leg you will chain--yes, but not my will--no, not even Zeus can conquer that. Epictetus conquerlegssuffering The PR industry loves the concept that if you just apologize, the problem goes away. The concept of apology is known in the Judeo-Christian sense: You apologize, but then you suffer. The problem is nobody wants the suffering. Everybody wants drive-through redemption. Eric Dezenhall apologysufferingchristian I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimulated by it all. Eric Drooker artistsufferingthinking But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too weary to go on, and takes stock of where it's been and where it's going. During these gloomy pauses, we often discover parts of ourselves we never knew we possessed, talents that, properly activated, enrich our lives. Eric G. Wilson griefsoulsuffering«5455565758596061626364»
