Quotes of: Suffer Keyword

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

David Lynch

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

Christiaan Barnard

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Epicurus

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Walter Savage Landor

In all affairs, whether large or small, there are few men who reach a happy conclusion except through the Way. If you do not succeed, you are bound to suffer from the judgment of men. If you do succeed, you are bound to suffer from the yin and yang. ...

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven always apportions to a man's capability of endurance the anguish with which he afflicts him...Suffer...

The Man in the Iron Mask

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessati...

Looking for Alaska

One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering. Religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are not--that is, when they have nothing to ...

Letter to a Christian Nation

God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. ... It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought this meant that no one could see his splendor and live. A friend said perhaps it meant that no one coul...

Lament for a Son

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or a...

Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. We see striving everywhere inhibited...

The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that t...

A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

On one hand, you wish for no pain or suffering or misery on anyone. Yet you hope to see your children grow into individuals of compassionate and kind character. And it seems that pain, suffering, and misery adequately humble an individual, cultivatin...

Richelle E. Goodrich

Bear patiently that which you suffer by your own fault.

Dutch

For most people love of justice is no more than the fear to suffer injustice.

French

It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.

Indiscretion

Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

The Shack

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Phaedrus

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra