Suffering Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Men, Giving, Almighty

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• I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

  Kevin Sorbo

  People, Understanding, Disability

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust

  Brennan Manning

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Flow

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• Realizing that we can not live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed of our resources and our counsel to the relief of the suffering and the settlement of the disputes among the European nations. Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Heart, America, Inspire

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.

  Nickolas Ashford

  Pain, Kids, Depth

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• Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Vices, Virtue

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.246

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

  Plutarch

  Evil, Firsts, Speakers

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• You know what I think the guy who reviewed the live show for Pitchfork suffers from? Shy/asshole confusion. I'm not an asshole. I don't think I have to prove that to anyone, but I'm just putting that out there. I just think people should know that I'm not trying too hard. I think some people are just bitter that they ended up reviewing the show rather than playing the show, perhaps.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Thinking, People, Confusion

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• A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Rivers, Littles

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.510

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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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• Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

  Antonio Porchia

  Adversity, Vain

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• I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Selfish, Men, Suffering Of Others

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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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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• Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

  Andre Malraux

  Real, Teach, Opium

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• Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from growing the very moment something unpleasant, something painful comes up. At that moment we become phobic, we run away, we desensitize ourselves. Neurotic suffering is suffering in imagination, suffering in fantasy.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Running, Self, Games

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• Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

  Billy Graham

  Comforter

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• Suffering gives us no special rights.

  Albert Camus

  Rights, Giving, Special

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• Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Adversity, Men, Facts

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• I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

  Antonio Porchia

  Believe, Soul, Cures

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures and wrong-doings, defeated by the down-drag of the flesh, defeated by loss, by pain, by suffering, by worry. Instead of saying with confidence, ?This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith?, they have to say in honesty, ?This is the defeat that has been caused by the world, even our self-centeredness.? That is the opposite of faith. Unbelief is not the opposite of faith; self-centeredness is ? being centered in self rather than in God.

  Sam Shoemaker

  Faith, Christian, Honesty

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• The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Order, Might

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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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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• The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Philosophical, Pay The Price, People

  E.L. Doctorow (2015). “Citizen Doctorow, Notes on Art & Politics: The Nation Essays 1978-2015”, p.56, The Nation Co. LLC

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