Quotes of: Human-suffering Keyword

An Odonian’s goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.

The Dispossessed

The finger in the jar atop the entertainment center served as a reminder: death was far kinder than the fate Juanita could have suffered at the hands of that other man.

Dog Tags

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

Enduring Love

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

Eragon

...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer...

A Familiar Rain

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

The Fault in Our Stars

He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other’s suffering, and we didn’t now.

Grounded

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

Homage to Catalonia

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

The House of the Dead

Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.

Branded by Fire

Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.

Burning Falls

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

The Book of My Lives

The sex was so passionate it bordered on violence. It was not vanilla. It was passion as suffering

The Book of Happy Endings: True Stories about Finding Love

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

The Black Tulip

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Brave New World

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.

John Prescott

After 'A Perfect Storm' came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as 'Arizona,' that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

Lori Foster

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

Christopher Love

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Edvard Munch