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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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

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No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

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We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

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Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

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The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

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I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

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The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

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What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

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I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

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This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.

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We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

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Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

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If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

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Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

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Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

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