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Quotes About Suffering

If everyone only gave a fraction of the compassion their hearts are capable of giving... how much suffering could we alleviate in this world?
~ Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
May I live to see the day when I long for the agony I feel now. /????? ??????? ????? ??????? ??????
~ Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.
~ Jim Doyle
Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
~ Tacitus
The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
~ Tanith Lee
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
~ Jesse Jackson
War is the enemy of all mankind.
~ Edwin Starr
Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
~ Walker Percy
Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
~ William Shakespeare
Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.
~ George Will
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
~ Helen Keller
What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?
~ Nel Noddings
Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.
~ Sean Stephenson
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.
~ Deepak Chopra
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
~ Gautama Buddha
Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.
~ Luther Burbank
My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
~ Jack Kevorkian
There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)
~ Lucretius
He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Positive disintegration is the sublimation of suffering
~ Martijn Budel
One man suffers to save many.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Sufferings helps to soften the harden heart.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita