Quotes by Suffering Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment. Gail Sheehy natural-talentembarrassmentsuffering I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer. Fyodor Dostoevsky sufferingbrainheart I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. Gabriel Garcia Marquez delightsufferingworld Much suffering in hospitals is wasted. Fulton J. Sheen hospitalssuffering And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much! Fyodor Dostoevsky sufferingfeelingstrying To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival. Friedrich Nietzsche principlessufferingdoe But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"? Friedrich Nietzsche what-ifpainsuffering I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings. Fyodor Dostoevsky drinksufferingwish It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel a pain' does entail 'I feel a pain'. So scepticism loses its force - cannot open up its characteristic gap - with regard to that which ultimately most concerns us, pleasure and pain. Galen Strawson painsufferingdoe Pity makes suffering contagious. Friedrich Nietzsche contagiouspitysuffering Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was. Gabriel Garcia Marquez painsufferingfeelings Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. Gao Xingjian sufferingeasewriting What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope. Friedrich Nietzsche heroicgoing-outsuffering The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping. Garchen Rinpoche causessufferingself If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life. Gangaji energysufferingviews And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better? Fyodor Dostoevsky idlewellssuffering Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? Friedrich Nietzsche painsufferingdoe Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper. Gangaji victoryidentitysuffering He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended. Fyodor Dostoevsky new-lifesufferingmen The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it. Garry Trudeau poormoneysuffering«6263646566676869707172»
