Suffering Quotes - Page 31

• Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, Writing, May

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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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• 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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• In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.

  David Cassidy

  California, Impact, Keys

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• Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  War, Reality, Men

  "Modern Gothic Master Seth Grahame-Smith Talks ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,’ ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,’ ‘Dark Shadows’". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

  Greg Iles

  Gold, Letters, Pieces

  "Evil under the sun" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You need to suffer to be interesting.

  Alyson Hannigan

  Interesting, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to maintain our own innocence. We will say that God is not able to do what He would like, or He would never permit persons such as ourselves to suffer. That puffs up our egos and soothes our griefs at the same time. "How could God do this to me?" is at once an admission of pain and a soporific for it. It reduces our personal grief by eradicating the deity. Drastic medicine, indeed, that only a human ego, run wild, could possibly imagine.

  John Gerstner

  Running, Pain, Grief

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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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• Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the life of man. it is therefore here below that the just must prosper and the impious suffer.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Men, Evil, Wish

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• Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.

  Jason Patric

  Interesting

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• At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly, and are also happy, in unmistakable ways, some of the time. If we had no knowledge of happiness, our novels wouldn't sufficiently resemble real life. Some of us are even made a little bit happy, on occasion, by the writing process itself. I mean, really, if there wasn't some sort of enjoyment to be derived, would any of us keep doing it?

  Michael Cunningham

  Real, Writing, Mean

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• I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Commit, Percent, Ifs

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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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• It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Suffering Of Others, Imagination, Moral

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• Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

  Compay Segundo

  Animal, Men, Culture

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• We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.

  David Satcher

  Country, Children, Believe

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• There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Reality, Trying

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