Suffering Quotes - Page 35

• Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

  Margaret Atwood

  Winning, Numbness, Suffering Of Others

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “The Robber Bride”, p.256, Anchor

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• The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, volume I, chapter II: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals", p. 40, darwin-online.org.uk. 1871.

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• There will be no more danger, pollution or destruction, none of these things that we suffer from so much today. Everything will be heavenly, beautiful and natural, the way it was when God first created the earth.

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Earth, Today

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• Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.

  Thomas Dubay

  Reality, People, Boredom

  Thomas Dubay (2002). “Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within”, p.77, Ignatius Press

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• I do not suffer; I cannot suffer because I am not an object. Of course there is suffering. But do you realize what this suffering is? I am the suffering. Whatever is manifested, I am the functioning. Whatever is perceptible I am the perceiving of it. Whatever is done I am the doing of it; I am the doer of it, and, understand this, I am also that which is done. In fact, I am the total functioning.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Done, Doers, Facts

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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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• If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  One Day, World, Body

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• At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's houses, left only with a handful of fading memories and a body racked with great pain and suffering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Memories, Children

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you do has no point, and all of the achievements of the human race are meaningless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Race, People, Achievement

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• You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting to go back to the sky. We're drawn by a force we don't understand, through worlds, through experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Home, Sky, Dew

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• There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, World, Existence

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• Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Dimensions, Helping

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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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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• 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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• As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Long, Mind

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• The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Dark, Shining

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• You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.

  Frederick Lenz

  Glasses, Diversity, World

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• A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Desire, Emotion, Consciousness

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• Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Pain, People

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• Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reflection, Self, People

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• The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Opportunity, Missing, World

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• People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

  Frederick Lenz

  Tired, People, World

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• Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Firsts, Causes

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Hell is everything. Heaven is nothing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heaven, Hell

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• He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most absurd doctrines are not without such evidence as martyrdom can produce. A martyr, therefore, by the mere act of suffering, can prove nothing but his own faith.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mean, Doctrine, Knaves

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.199

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