Sufferers Quotes - Page 3

• Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Animal, Hell, Innocent

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1995). “When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals”, Doubleday

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• There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

  James Clavell

  Dignity, Shoguns

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.92, Dell

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• By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers.

  Tom Wolfe

  Real, Overwhelming Urge, World

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• I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.

  Padma Lakshmi

  People, Want, Young

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• In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Support, Typical, Groups

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• Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Home, Voice, Coal

  "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Addiction, Overcoming, Adhd

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• Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,-- The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Wall, Pain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.283

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• [T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Addresses, Form

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• in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

  Alexandre Dumas

  Prayer, Heaven, Sublime

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask”, p.158, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to it, and that those who don't have it under control will seek help with all that is available to treat it.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Issues, Bipolar, Rooftops

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• Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Stress, Impact, Sight

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• Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

  Jane Austen

  Done, Unjust, Merit

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.402, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Opportunity, Suffering, Unhappy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

  Susan Sontag

  Mean, Patient

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• But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with one or two of those who, in all measures affecting masses of people, must be acute sufferers for the good of many. The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Men, Two, People

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1409, BookCaps Study Guides

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• [However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and family situations. There he must ... present a face approximating the one associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod, and frown and, God help him, even smile.

  William Styron

  War, Trying, Events

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• As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.

  Hannah Arendt

  Diversity, Culture, Citizens

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

  Mark Twain

  People, Age, Violent

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• Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Damage, Faults

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.301, Library of America

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• There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Sympathy, Men, Giving

  Alexandre Dumas (2015). “THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature”, p.912, 谷月社

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• If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Chiefs, Ifs, Sinner

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.53, Bibliolis Books

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• While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.

  Eva Hoffman

  Justice, Diversity, Perception

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• One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Thinking, Guilt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Ifs, Knows

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.83, Da Capo Press

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