Suffering Quotes - Page 23

• No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

  Sebastian Junger

  Jobs, War, Gun

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• The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

  Ivor Novello

  Actors, Emotion, Stiffness

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• There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

  Marian Keyes

  Doubt, Circumstances, No Doubt

  "Give the guy a break" by Marian Keyes, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2002.

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• Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Sex, Race, Enormous

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• Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.

  Jennifer Young

  Pain, Awakening, Causes

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• The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.

  Charles Bukowski

  Marijuana, Men, Medicine

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.205, City Lights Books

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• If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

  Ellie Kemper

  Choices, Certain, Plans

  "Ellie Kemper's Wedding Season DOs and DON'Ts". www.glamour.com. May 10, 2012.

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• There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

  Paullina Simons

  Book, Heart, Thinking

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• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  A. J. Langer

  Looks

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• The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

  Ralph Merkle

  Technology, Benefits, Alleviate

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• The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dream, Reality, Scott Fitzgerald

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• I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

  Frank Ocean

  Great Work, Yeah, Great Things

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• So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.

  Lee Strobel

  Self, People, Centeredness

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• China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Climate, India, China

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hope is delicate suffering.

  Amiri Baraka

  Hope, Delicate

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• Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Imagination, Christian Love

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

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• I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

  Jim Parsons

  Fun, School, Average

  "Big Bang Theory: The Jim Parsons Interview". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. September 23, 2010.

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• You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.

  Christina Romer

  People, Needs, Care

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• I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.

  Gary Coleman

  Littles, Bits, Little Bit

  "'Diff'rent Strokes' actor Gary Coleman dies at 42" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2010.

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• We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Suffering Of Others, Trying, Way

  Twitter post from Nov 03, 2012

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• The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Rights, Different, World

  Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.

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• When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Soul, Body

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.221, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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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• Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Years, Class, America

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• To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Ideas, Forever, Wish

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