A. C. Bradley Quotes, Men Quotes, Suffering Quotes

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.

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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

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Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.

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In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

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And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

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The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.

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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

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We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind.

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For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

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The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

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True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

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I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering-that also is through human intelligence.

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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet.

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Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

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Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

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It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

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posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

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