J. M. Coetzee Quotes
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
Ramana Maharshi
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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
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
Hanna Rosin
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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
Nancy Pearcey
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It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
Abbas Kiarostami
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We are not by nature cruel.
J. M. Coetzee
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In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.
M. J. Rose
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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
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Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
Pamela Stephenson
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Irving Babbitt
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
Patricia Cornwell
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. Wells
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung
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Ciel: *Over Sebastian's 'dead' body* THAT'S AN ORDER! WAKE UP! RIGHT NOW! Sebastian: *thinking* But I am awake.
Yana Toboso
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There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will explode in our society if we do not address the huge amount of suffering in our midst.
Marianne Williamson
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I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then?
Bob DeMarco
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A sense of justice is a noble fancy.
Esaias Tegner
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I'm a coffee addict. I think I buy, like, four a day. I'm not even jittery from it any more.
Kirsten Sweetland
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
J. M. Coetzee