Suffering Quotes - Page 34

• All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Meditation, Training

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• For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Age, Birth, Sickness

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• What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Grief, Sorrow

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• Silence in times of suffering is the best.

  John Dryden

  Silence

  John Dryden (1868). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: With Life and Critical Dissertation”, p.297

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• Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

  John Dryden

  Light, Giving, Complaining

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.124

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• Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

  Saul Bellow

  Perspective, Anxiety, Scales

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.85, Penguin

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• So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Photography, Reality, Example

  "Photography, or the Writing of Light" by Jean Baudrillard, 2000.

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• For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Pride, Gold

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 253, 2006.

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• A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

  Albert Camus

  Writing, Today

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

  Sallust

  Men, Underestimate

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• I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Sorrow, Stronger

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• I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

  Joseph Hall

  Strive, Found, Quarrels

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• My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

  Rory Bremner

  Medical, Mum, Stills

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• Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Fruit, Language, Produce

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• I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.

  Edgar Degas

  People, Solitude, Locks

  Edgar Degas (1963). “Drawings”

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• Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

  William Styron

  Past, Mind, Leafs

  William Styron (1957). “Lie Down in Darkness: A Novel”

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• How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Work, Simple, Years

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• The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Foundation, Public Good

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• In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

  Al-Ghazali

  Sorrow, Affliction, Want

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• As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.

  Pamela Anderson

  Baby, Pain, Cutting

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• Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.

  Susan Sontag

  Distance, Way, Observation

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.117, Macmillan

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• I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Book, Writing, Disease

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• The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Sacrifice, Views, People

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.65, VM eBooks

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• All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.

  Karl Barth

  Men, Thinking, Judging

  Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation”, p.220, A&C Black

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• God is to be recognized in all that exists, all that is charming, suffering, blooming or drooping.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Blooming, Charming, Charm

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 22, 2017

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