Suffering Quotes
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My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.
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I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in the end - a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers.
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To write is to give meaning to suffering.
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Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.
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Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.
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Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.
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You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.
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We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.
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My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.
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The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
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Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.
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It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.
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Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.
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Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
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Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.
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If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.
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Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.
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Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.
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It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
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When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
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suffering sweetens the reward
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My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. 'Forgive me Lord.' For what, I didn't know.
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Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.
