Quotes by Suffering We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens. Henry Selick screensenoughsuffering A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die. H. L. Mencken sufferingmenblood Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. Henry Louis Gates sufferingdoe When you know that somebody lost their loved one as a result of a decision that I made, that's a tough moment. If you're a faithful person you try to empathize with the suffering that that person is going through. George W. Bush faithfuldecisionsuffering We believe in peace. We strongly believe in freedom. Where we see suffering we will help. And rather than try to offset a nation, why not join nations together to achieve kind of big objectives? George W. Bush sufferingtryingbelieve The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens. Helen Keller degreessufferingcivilization We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. Henry Miller trainingfatesuffering Under neoliberalism, you have a political-financial class that doesn't care about whether people are suffering. They float above politics. They have power and they don't care. They'll do anything to simply increase their wealth. Henry Giroux caresufferingpeople Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it. Helen Keller alleviatesatisfiedsuffering Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change. Friedrich Nietzsche lightsufferinginspirational It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual. Friedrich Nietzsche individualsufferingfacts It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26) Henry Miller destinysufferingreality Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness. Herbert Hoover benefitsreturnsuffering When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end. Henri Nouwen usesufferingmoving I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented. Herbert Hoover unemploymentdegreessuffering Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted? Henry Van Dyke heritagegenerationssuffering Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else. Hermann Hesse sufferinghurtlove-you The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering. Frederick Lenz enlightenmentpainsuffering I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold. Hernando Cortes goldsufferingheart To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer? Henry James stupidsufferingthinking«7980818283848586878889»
