Quotes with suffering

Quotes 81 till 100 of 156.

  • A. S. Byatt Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Patience means self-suffering.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Caleb Deschanel Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Burning Spear Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Tom Stoppard Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Michel Faber Shared suffering, she’d found, was no guarantee of intimacy.
    Onderhuids (2000)
    Michel Faber
    Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Ouida Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Felicia D. Hemans Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Suffering is part of the divine idea.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Heinrich Suso Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
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  • Anatole France Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Antonio Guterres Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
    Deborah Amos on Syria’s Refugee Crisis (2013)
    Antonio Guterres
    Portuguese politician and UN Secretary General (1949 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Norman Mailer The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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