Suffering Quotes - Page 16

• How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Betrayal, Men, Soul

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.62, Heinemann

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• Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Blessed, Lord

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• I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

  Harrison Ford

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• A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

  George Santayana

  Mind, Body, Limits

  George Santayana (2011). “The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense”, p.33, MIT Press

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• Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

  Georges Duhamel

  Sleep, Shadow, Intoxication

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• It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Obedience, Responsible

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• Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

  Jean Racine

  Pain, Unjust, Argument

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• Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Men, Should Have, Unjust

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.49, Jester House Publishing

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• The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.

  James Gleick

  Feelings, Finding Yourself, May

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• I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Hate, Self, Feelings

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• Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

  Greg Egan

  Quality, Screw Ups, Way

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• I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Lost

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger: Success and secrets". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, mobile-feeds.cbsnews.com. September 30, 2012.

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• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  Peter Abelard

  Son, Compassion, Two

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• Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.

  Peter Abelard

  Children, Order, Grace

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• Men had taken greater blows: that was what made a man a man. For did they not say that a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; that the silent tremor of pain down its body alone must tell of its suffering?

  Chinua Achebe

  Pain, Men, Grieving

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• I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

  Simone Weil

  Country, Humiliation

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Eagles, Bird

  1592 Tamora to Saturninus.Titus Andronicus, act 4, sc.4, l.83-6.

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• One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

  Fay Weldon

  Hair, Mourning, Tears

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• To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

  Marcel Proust

  Needs, States, Familiar

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1127, Wordsworth Editions

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• If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

  Aristotle

  Religious, Men, Thinking

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Son, Devil, Mystery

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1245, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Fire, Remains, Edges

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.6372, Delphi Classics

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• The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

  Ovid

  Mind, Body, Contemplation

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• The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

  Plutarch

  Evil, Firsts, Speakers

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• Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Heaven, Criticism

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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