Sufferers Quotes

• Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough.

  Timothy Keller

  Bible, God, Christian

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• History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Peace, Freedom, Tyrants

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1949). “Labor's Own William Z. Foster: A Communist's Fifty Years of Working-class Leadership and Struggle”, New York : New Century Publishers

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• The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance,
  some form of unconscious resistance to what is.
  On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement.
  The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Thinking

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• Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

  Emma Thompson

  Kindness, People, Suffering

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• Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, Freedom

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph Bunche's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Inspirational, Depression, Depressing

  Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.1, Psychology Press

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  Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Sad, Pain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

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• All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

  Peter Singer

  Encouragement, Nature, Animal

  "Peter Singer" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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• A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

  Billy Graham

  Suffering, Doe, Needs

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2015

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• We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Ignorance, Punishment, Numbers

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• No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.

  R. C. Sproul

  Son, Suffering, Greater

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• The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Jesus, Jobs

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.93, Penguin

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• Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

  Julian Fellowes

  Passion, Being In Love, Reality

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• There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

  George Eliot

  Peace, Morning, Pain

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Introductory chapter, 1866.

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• A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Anger, Evil

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “Remarks on Italy. The Tatler”, p.323

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• I think that the kinds of stereotypes that people have about Haitians or about HIV sufferers exist because we don't realize that these are our brothers, our sisters, our aunts and uncles, our neighbors. They are us. And I don't mean that in some metaphorical sense. They are literally us.

  Kwame Dawes

  Brother, Uncles, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

  William Hazlitt

  Jokes

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Poets”

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