Quotes with suffering

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  • Bertrand Russell Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Francis Bacon To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
    Original: Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
    Latin
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bob Marley Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • C. S. Lewis Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
    The Problem of Pain (1940)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Karl Kraus War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Marcel Proust We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Sigmund Freud We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • T. S. Eliot We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Marianne Moore We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Edward Dahlberg We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Bernard Malamud We have two lives, Roy, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
    The Natural p. 152.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Eric Hoffer We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Audre Lorde What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Whatever you do, make it an offering to me - the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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