Suffering Quotes - Page 24

• 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 word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

  Judith Jamison

  Vocabulary

  "Portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2007.

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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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• I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.

  Hari Kunzru

  Climbing, Trying, Adults

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• Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Powerful, Thinking, Cynical

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• We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Pain, Today, Faces

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• Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.

  Peter Singer

  Stress, Animal, Order

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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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• Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering."

  Mary Pipher

  Peace, Prayer, Worry

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• We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

  Tracy Chapman

  Pain, Philosophy, World

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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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• At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Impact, People, Important

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• People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

  Hamid Karzai

  Children, People, Tough Times

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• In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Country, Past, Japan

  "Japanese PM apologises for war". www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2005.

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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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• I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.

  Laura Lippman

  Thinking, Talking, Cities

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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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• 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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• I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

  Rafael Nadal

  Careers, Enjoy

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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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• I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Form, Novel, Mines

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• If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

  William C. Brown

  Pain, Order, Stupidity

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