Suffering Quotes - Page 33

• I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you.

  Kayla Mueller

  Eye, Forever, Ifs

  "Kayla Mueller's parents appeal to ISIS: 'We are still hopeful'" by Ben Brumfield, Jomana Karadsheh, www.cnn.com. February 7, 2015.

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• This really is my life's work, to go where there is suffering.

  Kayla Mueller

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• Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.

  Camille Claudel

  House, Purpose, Causes

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• I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hurt, Tears, Want

  "No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

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• No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

  C. J. Mahaney

  Matter, Sin, This Life

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• Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.

  Margaret Fuller

  Class, Mad, Criminals

  Margaret Fuller (1869). “Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems”, p.230

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• If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Giving Up, Ifs

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• Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They don’t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated.

  Curtis White

  Selfish, Government, Names

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• Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism

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• That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Doe, Interest, Opium

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

  John Lydon

  Sides, Bed, Wake Up

  "John Lydon: PiL lets me express proper emotions". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2009.

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• Who can take away suffering without entering it?

  Henri Nouwen

  Entering

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.72, Image

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• When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

  Philip Yancey

  Wall, World, Doe

  Philip Yancey (2010). “What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace”, p.174, Hachette UK

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• One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Might, Reason Why

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.136, Harper Collins

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• It is OK to be happy in life. Even through all the strife, maybe especially during times of great pain and suffering. We still have to be able to stay close to that joy because we can't save the world in a bad mood.

  Andrew W.K.

  Pain, Happy Life, Joy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Angel, Tears, Golden

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• The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Real, Torture, Terrorist

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• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  Abraham Verghese

  Years, Medicine, Students

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• I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Pain, Thinking

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• To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Ambition, Fighting, Cry

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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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• These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.

  Patricia Hampl

  Grief, Views, Profound

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• Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

  Anais Nin

  Soul, Yearning, Your Soul

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• There is nothing special about your suffering.

  Dan Davis

  Special

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• Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Heaven, Sake

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