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  • The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : A. C. Bradley Quotes , Men Quotes , Suffering Quotes
  • The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and the same desire for happiness, and not suffering, and the consideration that you as one individual are one life unit as compared with the mulititude of others in their ceaseless quest for happiness.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Simple Quotes , Suffering Quotes
  • Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , People Quotes , Suffering Quotes
  • Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Rich Or Poor Quotes , Suffering Quotes