Suffering Quotes

• Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

  

  Leon Kass
  • Suffering
  • Promise
  • Biotechnology

• A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • People
  • Believe
  • Literature

• 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
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Sympathy

• Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and there remain, living both in soul and body, than to support such a sight. And if the sea were all fire they would cast themselves therein and never leave it, if they were certain of meeting the sin on doing so.

  

  Catherine of Genoa
  • Soul
  • Support
  • Sin

• I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Believe
  • Suffering
  • I Think

• Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Nature
  • Pain
  • Intelligence

• Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.

  

  Elizabeth Carter
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Influence

• The main thing is to explain to yourself that everybody suffers.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Suffering

• How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Suffering
  • Force
  • Moves

• We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Should
  • Pleasure

• Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Enlightenment
  • Temporary

• Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Freedom
  • Suffering
  • Acceptance

• Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • People
  • Hate
  • Failing

• Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

  

  Stephen Levine
  • Suffering
  • Holding
  • Could Be

• What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.

  

  Kabir
  • Suffering

• The SF created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.

  

  Paul Erdos
  • Enjoy
  • Plans
  • Supreme

• O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sympathy
  • Pity
  • Saws

• Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Wishing

• You could have all the money in the world, but you have to be smart enough knowing how to spend it. I really try to be on that smart money side. Once you make a serious mistake you can suffer five or six years, and I do my best to avoid serious mistakes.

  

  Mikhail Prokhorov
  • Trying
  • Mistake
  • Enough

• Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Art
  • Singing
  • Difficult

• Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Suffering
  • Emotional
  • Poverty

• He's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happy
  • Suffering
  • Means

• Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • She

• Kindnessis giving others happiness. Compassionis removing others' bitterness. Joyis freeing others from suffering.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Happiness
  • Removing

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