Quotes of: Suffer Keyword

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

A House of Pomegranates

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

The Idiot

You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.

Infinite Jest

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

Interview with the Vampire

She looked into Kirsten's eyes and wondered how it is that a soldier fights and a savior suffers, but a woman, in lying down, rules everything.

The Kingdom of Childhood

Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

Radically Ordinary

Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.

The Souls of Animals

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

Sodom and Gomorrah

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

Shadowlands

People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

Single Dad Laughing

Your suffering is here to help you unfold and to awaken into compassion, love and strength.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

All your troubles, struggles, pains and suffering is worth one good thing.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Humility adds lessons to our pain and suffering, turning the seemingly senseless into meaning.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.

The Manticore

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.

Mind Over Ship

There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.

Melmoth the Wanderer

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

Night Flight

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

The Leftovers

How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too base for this world to commit... No happiness lasted.

To the Lighthouse

For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.

The Last Will of Moira Leahy