Quotes About Suffering

Those who suffer from historical amnesia, the belief that we are unique in history and have nothing to learn from the past, remain children. They live in an illusion.

Aristotle said that only two living entities are capable of complete solitude and complete separateness: God and beast. Because of this the most acute form of suffering for human beings is loneliness.

They failed to grasp the central Socratic paradox: that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.

We should feel the same pity for minds that do not eat as for stomachs. If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light."77

the sack of kittens sinking in the icy creek increases the cold

He was well aware, like Hugo, that good people were usually relentlessly persecuted, were rarely rewarded for virtue, and that those who held fast to truth and justice often found the way to their own cross.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Misery is a match that never goes out.

Want is misery.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

It's important to produce economic development. Fundamentalism develops even faster with misery.

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.

Many people experience Gethsemane moments.

Guys like the Monarch are not unique, and there are guys like him all over the world torturing dumb scientists.

I never thought I had the monopoly on struggle or suffering.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.