Judith Malina Quotes

It is better to rage against the preventable suffering/because it leads to the suggestion of gorgeous alternatives/than to express our sadness.

Judith Malina

Quotes to Explore

At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

Imelda May
- Up
- Time
- School
When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.

Park Chan-wook
- Music
- Try
- Sadness
I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

Ingmar Bergman
- Children
- Bad
- Suffering
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

Yoko Ono
- People
- Love
- Suffering
Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

Sam Harris
- People
- Good
- Children
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Madame de Stael
- Life
- Suffering
- Boredom