Quotes with suffering

Quotes 101 till 120 of 156.

  • Milan Kundera The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Albert Camus The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ben Okri The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Bill Williams The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.
    Bill Williams
    American actor
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  • Ariel Sharon 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
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Karl Marx The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Harry S. Truman The reward of suffering is experience.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Aeschylus The reward of suffering is experience.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • William Faulkner The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Octave Mirbeau The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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  • Bill Hicks The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
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    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Samuel Smiles 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
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Roland Barthes There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.
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  • Campbell Brown This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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