suffering quotes

• Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? (George Sand) [joy/suffering/shame]
• The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. (Samuel Smiles) [men/suffering]
• It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. (Susan Sontag) [suffering/suffering]
• If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. (Simone Weil) [suffering/misfortune/think/day]
• Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror. (Simone Weil) [evil/suffering/sin/time]
• I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. (Oscar Wilde) [suffering]
• Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. (Angelina Jolie) [pain/suffering/suffering/right]
• It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing. (Bela Lugosi) [women/suffering/horror/blood]
• Women have a predestination to suffering. (Bela Lugosi) [women/suffering]
• Suffering symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease. (Charlton Heston) [suffering/disease]
• “We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone” (Viggo Mortensen) [experience/suffering/look/life]
• No one is truly doing very well. One surely isn't here to do well. Surely we have another purpose: Perhaps to know who one is, to know that which makes us suffer and that which causes suffering for others; maybe to love someone... Perfection is the ability to admit imperfection. (Anne Parillaud) [suffering/love/perfection/ability]
• One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. (Isabelle Adjani) [love/suffering/control]
• Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting. (Jason Patric) [suffering/find]
• “We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.” (Willie Nelson) [suffering]
• “I came over here (Hollywood) to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved and decorative” (Deborah Kerr) [suffering]
• It makes me very angry and also at the same time very sad that anybody should carry out such a violent attack with no possible gain from it and only suffering to the individual and his family (Robin Cook) [time/attack/suffering/family]
• Saddam alone is to blame for his people’s suffering. It is a myth that UN policy prevents the delivery of food and medicines. To export most goods to Iraq - including food, medicines, agricultural and educational equipment, and water and sanitation goods - it is simply necessary to notify the UN. (Robin Cook) [suffering/food/food/water]
• But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for. (Paulo Coelho) [suffering/life]
• Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. (Paulo Coelho) [fear/suffering/suffering/search]
• Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. (Paulo Coelho) [suffering]
• As far as those events are concerned, I would not even start to justify myself…. What I did was wrong and I don’t see why I should go back to this for the purposes of this trial…. I made one mistake, and I am still suffering for that. (Roman Polanski) [mistake/suffering]
• “It pains me to watch the human suffering taking place in the Gulf region of my country. My heart and prayers go out to every individual who has had to endure the pain and suffering caused by this tragedy.” (Michael Jackson) [human/suffering/pain/suffering]
• “It pains me to watch the human suffering taking place in the gulf region of my country. I will be reaching out to others within the music industry to join me in helping to bring relief and hope to these resilient people who have lost everything.” (Michael Jackson) [human/suffering/willpower/music]
• First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here? (Jack Kevorkian) [think/crime/suffering/human]
• My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life. (Jack Kevorkian) [suffering/life]
• A man will give up almost anything except his suffering. (John Cleese) [willpower/give/suffering]
• The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change. (Ariel Sharon) [conflict/heavy/suffering/future]
• When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. (Chinua Achebe) [suffering/worry]

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