Suffering Quotes
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But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my
Upton Sinclair
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Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.
Claudius Claudianus
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suffering sweetens the reward
F. E. Higgins
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The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.
Frank Zappa
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I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.
Carol Moseley Braun
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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.
Gene Wilder
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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.
Dalai Lama
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To write is to give meaning to suffering.
Alejandra Pizarnik
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Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.
David D. Burns
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It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
Emil Zatopek
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When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.
Ian Mcewan
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Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
Janet Fitch
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As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.
Kristen Stewart
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Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.
Jeffrey Kluger
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No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.
R. C. Sproul
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God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.
Hans Kung
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It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.
Charles Robert Maturin
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We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
Vance Havner
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I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.
Kevin Sorbo
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She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
Betty Smith
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A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
William Nicholson
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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.
Alice Morse Earle
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I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.
James Rothman