179 quotes found
“Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.”
“You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ”
“I have trodden the winepress alone.”
“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”
“I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.”
“In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on t...”
“My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of...”
“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”
“Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.”
“As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are fo...”
“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.”
“At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.”
“He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…”
“Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.”
“It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.”
“I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.”
“He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him...”
“...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Bu...”
“Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal.”
