Suffering Quotes - Page 171

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man.

I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.

Without any hope you cannot talk about suffering. If you talk about suffering without hope it's enjoying our euthanization. I tried to avoid euthanization enjoyment.

Demon or not, it didn't matter, suffering was everywhere he looked.

I think I suffer from body dysmorphia - I don't see what other people see.

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.

If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity. I will prove by my works whether I can mete out justice to such persons, or not. I would consider it just as much my duty to do that, as to baptize a man for the remission of his sins.

I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyone else could do this better than you can.

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering.

The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

I think, in a way, I've returned to who I used to be as a global correspondent whose life was devoted to really making a difference, illuminating what's happening in the world, always drawn toward the suffering of peoples and cultures and exposing exploitation and injustice; but now I'm the same person in a much, much softer iteration.

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.

The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.

In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.

Stress is a signal that something needs to change. Suffering, is when we don't make the change!

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.