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Quotes About Suffering

Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that is, in fact, real.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Life is a nightmare that leaves it's mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Existence equals nightmare." Unless life is a dream, nothing makes sense. For as a reality, it is a rank failure.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.
~ Thomas M. Disch
Beauty can pierce one like a pain.
~ Thomas Mann
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
~ Thomas Mann
Quinn wanted to make her see that people didn't live like this; but what was the use. No one was going to get her away from Bird Man out there.
~ Thomas McGuane
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
~ Thomas Merton
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.
~ Thomas Merton
all sentient beings capable of suffering should constitute a solidarity against suffering. Out of this solidarity, we should refrain from doing anything that could increase the overall amount of suffering and confusion in the universe.
~ Thomas Metzinger
Das Problem war nur, dass zwar die Weißen vom Virus befallen wurden, aber andere Leute sterben mussten.
~ Thomas Mullen
Brightness falls from the air;Queens have died young and fair;Dust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must die.Lord, have mercy on us!
~ Thomas Nashe
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
~ Thomas Otway
Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has n (Quote by - resource, and the first wound is mortal.
~ Thomas Paine
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.
~ Thomas Paine
That advice should be taken wherever example has failed, or precept be regarded where warning is ridiculed, is like a picture of hope resting on despair; but when time shall stamp with universal currency the facts you have long encountered with a laugh, and the irresistible evidence of accumulated losses, like the handwriting on the wall, shall ad terror to distress, you will then, in a conflict of suffering, learn to sympathize with others by feeling for yourselves.
~ Thomas Paine
But the constitution of England is so exceedingly complex, that the nation may suffer for years together without being able to discover in which part the fault lies; some will say in one and some in another, and every political physician will advise a different medicine.
~ Thomas Paine
The more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered . . . Absolute governments, (tho' the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs; know likewise the remedy; and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures.
~ Thomas Paine
I would give worlds, if I had them, that the Age of Reason had never been published. Oh, god, save me; for I am at the edge of hell alone.
~ Thomas Paine
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~ Thomas Paine
At every step of this moving upward into larger life, from seed to man, pain is seen to be an attendant fact. The seed or bird or man could well say, "Thank you pain; by you I have come into higher, larger life."
~ Thomas Parker Boyd
Bertrand Russell, scarcely an existentialist: can anyone really believe that the revulsion they feel when they witness the gratuitous infliction of pain is simply an expression of the fact that they don't happen to like it?
~ Thomas R. Flynn
Adam had unleashed a monster into the world.
~ Thomas R. Schreiner
Wherefore it ought to be the first concern of every Christian to lay aside all confidence in works and grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who suffered and rose for him." — ?Martin Luther
~ Thomas R. Schreiner