Suffering Quotes - page 8

The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible. I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens. (Roger Ebert)
If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences. View quote
Lauryn Hill
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. View quote
Tacitus
Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game - interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Without suffering, there'd be no compassion. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act. View quote
Paul Farmer
God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot... You want to see where Christ crucified abides today? Go to where the poor are suffering and fighting back, and that's where He is. View quote
Paul Farmer
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both. View quote
Grace Slick
I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result. (Temple Grandin)
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form. View quote
Cyril Connolly
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden...Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. View quote
Octave Mirbeau
Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on. View quote
Djuna Barnes
How many women are there...who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? View quote
Christine de Pizan
People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for. View quote
Laurie Anderson
Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less. View quote
Benito Mussolini
I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law. View quote
Jimmy Carter
All people believe their suffering is greater than others. View quote
Erica Jong
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering. View quote
John Cleese
Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom. (Margaret Fuller)
Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering. View quote
Henny Youngman
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. View quote
Hermann Hesse
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. View quote
Hermann Hesse
If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means. ... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk