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Quotes About Suffering

What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer.
~ Peter Singer
The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
~ Jack Kevorkian
There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.
~ Sebastiao Salgado
Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
~ Jules Verne
Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.
~ Joyce Meyer
Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
~ Zubin Mehta
Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
~ Lara Logan
No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.
~ Joel Sternfeld
Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
~ Kate Christensen
When more land is locked up by the federal government, real people suffer, and opportunities for future prosperity are reduced.
~ Paul Gosar
I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.
~ Jeff Bridges
You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.
~ Ruth Negga
I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.
~ Katherine Dunn
It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.
~ Mandy Patinkin
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.
~ Gertrude B. Elion
We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
~ Taya Kyle
Now I've got kids, you wouldn't want them to suffer because of a perception of you. I try to be very careful where I do things and make sure I know why I've done them. I wouldn't want them to be stigmatized.
~ Stewart Lee
The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.
~ Mitt Romney
Animals shouldn't suffer for the sake of beauty.
~ Drea De Matteo
I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.
~ John McCain
America will suffer under Trump.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
The way I suffer after a defeat is not for all, because I suffer. I suffer. But those who know me know that, after this, I start stronger with more hunger, more desire, because I don't like to lose.
~ Antonio Conte