Quotes of: Human-suffering Keyword

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?

Herbie Hancock

There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.

Mary Hart

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Milan Kundera

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

Zoe Wanamaker

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

Natalie Babbitt

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Margaret Fuller

Not without deep pain do we admit to ourselves that the artists of all ages have in their highest flights carried to heavenly transfiguration precisely those conceptions that we now recognize as false: they are the glorifiers of the religious and phi...

Human, All Too Human

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in a...

The Humans

A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relati...

The Sickness Unto Death

She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, ‘Billy Slick doesn’t sound much like a goblin name?’ Billy made a face. ‘Too right! Granny calls me Of the Wind Regretfully Blown. What kind of n...

Snuff

["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human beings come about in the same way. For hatred of human beings arises from artlessly trusting somebody...

Phaedo

To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, ea...

Simone de Beauvoir

The winds of the heavens shift suddenly; so does human fate.

Chinese

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

City of Heavenly Fire

Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning.

On Being a Christian

People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.

Blood and Ice

Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

Born in Shame

In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

Nancy Pearcey

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

Elizabeth Berkley

I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.

Joel Kinnaman