Suffering Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.

  Horace Walpole

  Thinking, Ignorant, Mind

  Horace Walpole (1866). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford”, p.368

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• Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

  Samuel Beckett

  Artistic, Conditions

  Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

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• Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

  Herodotus

  Men, Wheels, Fortune

  Herodotus (1990). “Herodotus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

  Clarence Day

  Elephants, Quality, Noble

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.28, 1st World Publishing

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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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• One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.

  Calvin Trillin

  Christian, Kings, Queens

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.

  Teresa of Avila

  Death, Spring, Eye

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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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• The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

  Horace Greeley

  Spring, Adversity, Fire

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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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• At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Pain, Reason, Disappear

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.695, Penguin UK

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• A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

  Karl Abraham

  Morning, Expectations, Anxiety

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.197, Karnac Books

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• I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Born, Mortals

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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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• Hope is delicate suffering.

  Amiri Baraka

  Hope, Delicate

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• It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

  Julius Caesar

  Apprehension, Perpetual

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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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• It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Wine, Blood, Giving

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