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Sometimes “Proof” is just another word for letting people suffer.
—
Malcolm Gladwell
,
Revisionist History Season 3 Episode 2
Proof
Suffering
Football
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The guy Dad sold your car to
comes back to get his money,
leaves the car. With filthy rags
we rub it down until it doesn’t shine
and wipe your blood into
the seams of the seat.
Each snowflake stirs before
lifting into the sky as I
learn you won’t be dead.
The unsuffering ends
when the mess of your head
pulls together around
a bullet in your mouth.
You spit it into Dad’s gun
before arriving in the driveway
while the evening brightens
and we pour bag after bag
of leaves on the lawn,
waiting for them to leap
—
Matt Rasmussen
,
Reverse Suicide
Poetry
The Slowdown
snowflake
Suffering
Bullet
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Sensual pleasure is our biological reward for taking care of ourselves.
—
Linda Bacon
,
Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Pleasure
eating
Sex
Struggle
Suffering
Working Out
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Pain, suffering, death I feel. Something terrible has happened. Young Skywalker is in pain. Terrible pain.
—
Yoda (voice)
(Frank Oz)
,
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Pain
Suffering
Death
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We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
—
C-3PO
(Anthony Daniels)
,
Star Wars
Suffering
Life
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There are moments that the words don’t reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.
—
Renée Elise Goldsberry
,
It's Quiet Uptown
Pain
Suffering
Depression
When Words Fail
Sad Song Lyrics
Sad
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Your sins are terrible. It is just that you suffer. Your life could be redeemed, but I know you don't believe that. You will not change.
—
Cardinal Lamberto
(Raf Vallone)
,
The Godfather: Part III
sins
Suffering
Redemption
Change
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Dionne:
Dude, what’s wrong. You suffering from buyers remorse or something?
Cher:
God, no! Nothing like that.
—
Cher Horowitz
(Alicia Silverstone)
,
Clueless
buyers
Remorse
Suffering
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This is the rule I always give myself: that nothing new can come from a situation that involves being free or that doesn’t involve suffering.
—
Rei Kawakubo
,
‘The rules are in my head.’
New
Freedom
Suffering
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Duchess Cecily:
You should understand. He was barely eleven years old when his father died at the She-Devil's hand. Have you any idea?
Jacquetta:
Indeed we do. I lost my own husband and my son in a similarly brutal and senseless manner.
Duchess Cecily:
Are we to measure our pain against each other? Are we to compete of who's suffered more?
—
Duchess Cecily
(Caroline Goodall)
,
The White Queen
,
Season 1
:
The Bad Queen
Pain
Suffering
Loss
Death
Hatred
resentment
Brutality
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Oh, you think the black man has a monopoly on suffering? You have no clue what black women go through, probably ‘cause you can’t get close to one, ‘cause you’re fucking whack. We deal with the same shit society heaps on you, then turn around and deal with the shit you heap on us.
—
Joelle Brooks
(Ashley Blaine Featherson)
,
Dear White People
,
Volume 2
:
Chapter V
Suffering
racism
Pain
Women
Womanhood
Intersectionality
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Look at you. You're in so much pain. Why are you putting yourself through all this?
—
Chuck McGill
(Michael McKean)
,
Better Call Saul
,
Season 3
:
Lantern
Pain
Suffering
Torturing Yourself
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Shit happens.
—
Rick Grimes
(Andrew Lincoln)
,
The Walking Dead
,
Season 3
:
Sick
Shit Happens
Suffering
Pessimistic
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It wasn't always easy, but suffering is something I've had to accept.
—
Haruki Murakami
,
Kafka On The Shore
Life
Suffering
struggles
life sufferings
Life Struggles
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Life is not a walk across an open field.
—
Siggy Haraldson
(Jessalyn Gilsig)
,
Vikings
,
Season 2
:
Eye for an Eye
Life
Hardship
Suffering
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Just a quick glance and I knew all was lost.
I saw in real life...now a on going mind view, the black and white, were now my new boss.
I saw my life as I know quickly fade away.
I saw my love ones, in mind and thoughts that I would never be able to touch, hold, communicate closely with and kiss with care will now be at bay.
I saw the Black Side of me, was now caught and others would not suffer from my lots,
But then it dawn on me, it was not as I thought.
Yes the other in me will cause no suffering.
The living remained, the Mother, Brother, Sisters, Children, Close Friends and wife will suffer.
Ands the real me of blood, flesh and mind will suffer.
The Suspect
—
Dennis Rader
,
BTK Suspect May Be Writing Poetry
Serial Killers
BTK
dark side
Suffering
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That is how I see mankind in its suffering; that is how I see the suffering people of Europe, bleeding to death on deserted battlefields after conflicts which to a great extent were not their own.
—
Fridtjof Nansen
,
via www.nobelprize.org
Mankind
Suffering
Europe
bleeding
World War I
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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
—
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
,
Letters and Papers from Prison
Suffering
accomplishment
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To grow we all need to suffer.
—
Dolores Abernathy
(Evan Rachel Wood)
,
Westworld
,
Season 2
:
Akane No Mai
Suffering
Through Pain We Grow
Meaning of the Pain
Why We Must Suffer
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The Bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, and in silence and subjection, she was to play the role of a dependent on man's bounty for all her material wants, and for all the information she might desire on the vital questions of the hour, she was commanded to ask her husband at home. Here is the Bible position of woman briefly summed up.
—
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
,
The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective
Bible
Patriarchy
Marriage
Maternity
Misogyny
Bondate
Suffering
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You think you are the greatest sufferer in the world? Do you know that men are sometimes banished for life? Do you know that men sometimes lose all their yams and even their children? I had six wives once. I have none now except that young girl who knows not her right from her left. Do you know how many children I have buried—children I begot in my youth and strength? Twenty-two. I did not hang myself, and I am still alive. If you think you are the greatest sufferer in the world ask my daughter, Akueni, how many twins she has borne and thrown away. Have you not heard the song they sing when a woman dies? 'For whom is it well, for whom is it well? There is no one for whom it is well.' I have no more to say to you.
—
Chinua Achebe
,
Things Fall Apart
Suffering
Banishment
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When your Excellency Considers my Sufferings, and the Cruel Situation I am in, your Own Humanity and feelings as a Soldier, will render every thing I can say farther on the Subject unnecessary.
—
Benedict Arnold
,
Founders Online: To George Washington from Major General Benedict Arnold, c.18 …
Suffering
Cruelty
humanity
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
—
Alan Watts
,
Become What You Are
Suffering
Life Is A Comedy
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Men, it's been a long war, it's been a tough war. You've fought bravely, proudly for your country. You're a special group. You've found in one another a bond that exists only in combat, among brothers. You've shared foxholes, held each other in dire moments. You've seen death and suffered together. I'm proud to have served with each and every one of you. You all deserve long and happy lives in peace.
—
Joseph Liebgott
(Ross McCall)
,
Band of Brothers
,
Season 1
:
Points
War
Soldiers
Bravery
Death
Suffering
Peace
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We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
—
Willie Nelson
,
Willie Quotes - Club Luck
Unhappiness
Suffering
Self-Sabotage
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Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
—
Yoda
(Frank Oz)
,
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Fear
dark side
Anger
Hate
Suffering
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Pain is inexhaustible.
—
Ray Velcoro
(Colin Farrell)
,
True Detective
,
Season 2
:
Other Lives
Pain
Suffering
Limits of Pain
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There will be pain. There will be suffering. We will be confronted with the most horrific aspects of humanity. We will confront the inhuman. Evil itself. But we will triumph. It is not a war we will lose.
—
Frank Underwood
(Kevin Spacey)
,
House of Cards
,
Season 4
:
Chapter 52
Pain
Suffering
Triumph
Evil
War
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Thank you, God, who as someone just told me, never said it would be easy, but did promise me that it would work.
—
Anne Lamott
,
via www.facebook.com
God
Christianity
Suffering
Thank You God
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"You don't have to rush. You have careers to launch, debts to pay, spouses to meet and marry. That's enough for now.
But in the course of your lives, without any plan on your part, you'll come to see suffering that will break your heart.
When it happens, and it will, don't turn away from it; turn toward it.
That is the moment when change is born."
—
Melinda Gates
,
Text of the 2014 Commencement address by Bill and Melinda Gates
Rush
Career
Launch
Debt
Pay
spose
Marriage
Marry
Partner
Life
Living
plan
Suffering
heart
happen
event
moment
Change
Chance
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Optimism for me isn't a passive expectation that things will get better; it's a conviction that we can make things better – that whatever suffering we see, no matter how bad it is, we can help people if we don't lose hope and we don't look away.
—
Melinda Gates
,
Text of the 2014 Commencement address by Bill and Melinda Gates
Optimism
passive
Expectation
get better
Conviction
better
Suffering
Bad
Hope
Mindset
Courage
positive
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The very efficiency of mass society makes people feel unnecessary, and therein lies a profound threat to our dignity.
—
Sebastian Junger
,
The Anthropology of Manhood | National Review
Conflict
Suffering
Happiness
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If He doesn't exist, fine. Bad crap happens to good people. That's how it is. There's no rhyme or reason. Just random, horrible, evil. I get it, OK. I can roll with that. But if He is out there, what's wrong with Him? Where the hell is He while all these decent people are getting torn to shreds? How does He live with Himself? You know, why doesn't He help?
—
Dean Winchester
(Jensen Ackles)
,
Supernatural
,
Season 4
:
Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester
God
Evil
Suffering
Divine Indifference
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Something happens at around 92 miles an hour—thunder-headers drown out all sound, engine vibrations travels at a heart's rate, field of vision funnels into the immediate and suddenly you're not on the road, you're in it. A part of it. Traffic, scenery, cops—just cardboard cutouts blowing over as you pass. Sometimes I forget the rush of that. That's why I love these long runs. All your problems, all the noise, gone. Nothing else to worry about except what's right in front of you. Maybe that's the lesson for me today, to hold on to these simple moments. Appreciate them a little more—there's not many of them left. I don't ever want that for you. Finding things that make you happy shouldn't be so hard. I know you'll face pain, suffering, hard choices, but you can't let the weight of it choke the joy out of your life. No matter what, you have to find the things that love you. Run to them. There's an old saying, 'That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger' I don't believe that. I think the things that try to kill you make you angry and sad. Strength comes from the good things - your family, your friends, the satisfaction of hard work. Those are the things that'll keep you whole. Those are the things to hold on to when you're broken.
—
Jax Teller
(Charlie Hunnam)
,
Sons of Anarchy
,
Season 5
:
Sovereign
Pain
Suffering
Motorcycles
Bikers
Freedom
Speeding
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In this our country has, in my judgment, thus far fulfilled its highest duty to suffering humanity. It has spoken and will continue to speak, not only by words, but by its acts, the language of sympathy, encouragement, and hope to those who earnestly listen to tones which pronounce for the largest national liberty.
—
Franklin Pierce
,
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 7
Judgment
fulfilled
Suffering
Duty
humanity
Words
acts
Action
sympathy
Encouragement
Language
Communication
Liberty
Freedom
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You can throw all your dreams down the well. Although everyday the pain grows you ride unicorns on rainbows if you throw all your dreams down the well. When your life's come apart at the seams and you've given up all your dreams, here is just the means to make those dreams come true.
No more suffering, no more sighin', no more pain and no more cryin'.
—
Spongebob Squarepants
(Tom Kenny)
,
SpongeBob SquarePants
,
Season 4
:
Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy VI - The Motion Picture
Songs
Dreams
Rainbows
Suffering
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The harder the hit, the more it'll sting. That's usually the case. So we prescribe meds, ice, compression, elevation. Things you do to stop the immediate pain. But you can only dull the pain for so long, and when the drugs start to wear off, it really hurts.
—
Dr. Meredith Grey
(Ellen Pompeo)
,
Grey's Anatomy
,
Season 13
:
Falling Slowly
doctors
Holding Off Pain
Suffering
Drugs
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The answer to ‘I have no idea how I am going to get through this’ is: you allow yourself to sob, to heave, to feel as if your heart has a boulder crashing through it.”
—
Geneen Roth
,
Women Food And God: An Unexpected Path To Almost Everything
The way forward
Pain
Suffering
Mental Health
Recovery
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The great thing about being Sisyphus is that you have your work cut out for you.
—
Geneen Roth
,
Women Food And God: An Unexpected Path To Almost Everything
Suffering
Pain
The way forward
eating disorders
humor
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When the suffering is fully allowed, it dissolves.
—
Geneen Roth
,
Women Food And God: An Unexpected Path To Almost Everything
Suffering
Pain
The way forward
eating disorders
Quote of the Moment
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Suffering is unnecessary and not at all required by the benevolent forces of life. If you currently have the exact opposite of what you desire, change your mind.
—
Iyanla Vanzant
,
via twitter.com
Suffering
benevolent forces
Life
Change
Mind
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Some folks are afraid to heal because it is easier to be attached to the suffering, then to let go and be open to the possibility of a full heart.
—
Joel L. Daniels
,
via twitter.com
Suffering
struggles
life sufferings
Life
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Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms and human rights.
—
Thurgood Marshall
,
via thurgoodmarshall.com
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Struggle
Sacrifice
Celebration
Constitution
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It’s the perfect time to return to the basics of your spiritual practice. Meditate more seriously, pray with greater sincerity, and know that you are being guided. This, too, shall pass.
—
Jordan Bach
,
via twitter.com
trying times
struggles
Suffering
strengthen your spirituality
meditate
Pray
spiritual communication
Spiritual Growth
spiritual healing
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David, I'm going to hell! The worst place in the world! With devils and those caves and the ragged clothing! And the heat! My god, the heat! I mean, what do you think about all that?
—
Elaine Benes
(Julia Louis-Dreyfus)
,
Seinfeld
,
Season 9
:
The Burning
Hell
Torture
Devils
Suffering
Hades
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Can’t do comparative suffering. If you’re hungry, and your friend says, 'you know, people are starving in Africa,' 'so what, nigga? I still want lunch.'
—
Dave Chappelle
,
The Age of Spin: Dave Chappelle Live at the Hollywood Palladium
Suffering
Comparing Your Pain To Others
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Neither yet can you be able to prove, that we either by word or writing have affirmed, that the principal end of any man’s creation was perpetual pain.
—
John Knox
,
Against an Anabaptist: In defense of predestination
Man
Creation
End
Pain
Suffering
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Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.
—
Sebastian Junger
,
Tribe
Suffering
The Digital Age
Community
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How do you become an adult in a society that doesn't ask for sacrifice?
—
Sebastian Junger
,
Tribe
Adulthood
Adulting
Suffering
The Digital Age
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You life has made you beautiful. Your suffering has made you fine.
—
Stephen Sondheim
,
Assasins
Life
beauty
Suffering
Endurance
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Unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.
—
Paulo Coelho
,
via Twitter
Suffering
unexpected suffering
life sufferings
Life
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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
—
Sigmund Freud
,
Civilization and Its Discontents
Suffering
Love
Love and Suffering
you're stronger than you think
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Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness. Suffering and amiability may exist together, and writers have loved to depict their conjunction; there is a human and touching harmony in the picture. But perfect happiness is an attribute of angels; and those who possess it, appear angelic.
—
Mary Shelley
,
The Last Man
Happiness
Suffering
Angels
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Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
—
Garry Shandling
,
Garry Shandling to be ordained a monk in Buddhist funeral
humor
Thich Nhat Nanh
Suffering
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It’s not that he consumes me but that I consume myself, much like the ouroboros.
I prepare for future suffering. I suffer today. I suffer so that the future suffering will feel like an old shoe. I’m a fish in a net, still living.
—
Jade Quinn
,
How To Eat Yourself
Suffering
Crazy In Love
Break Up
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She loved the guy. She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some people are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out—your friends, everyone you used to know. And it’s still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it’s going to take you down with it. I’ve seen that happen to a lot of people here. I think that’s why I’m sick of love.
—
Gregory David Roberts
,
Shantaram
Love
Sacrifice
Helping someone
Suffering
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Maybe one day you’ll come back. Maybe you never will and that’ll suck, but you can’t keep doing this. The blame and the self-loathing and the bull[crap]. I can’t watch that. It makes me hate you for hating yourself. I don’t want to lose you. But I’d rather lose you if it means you’ll be happy. I think if you come back with me today, you’ll never be okay. And I’ll never be okay if you aren’t. I need to know that there’s a way for people like us to end up okay. I need to know that there even is such a thing as okay, maybe even good, and it’s out there and we just haven’t found it yet. There’s got to be a happier ending than this, here. There’s got to be a better story. Because we deserve one. You deserve one. Even if it doesn’t end with you coming back to me.
—
Katja Millay
,
The Sea of Tranquility
Love
Unconditional Love
Happiness
Sacrifice
Suffering
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In grief, words are poor consolation - silence & agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.
—
Mary Todd Lincoln
,
Letter to her sister, Elizabeth Todd Edwards
Grief
Silence
Suffering
Pain
Words
Tears
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It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.
—
Andy Stanley
,
It Came from Within!: The Shocking Truth of What Lurks in the Heart
heart
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Soul
Truth
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The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
—
Edmund Burke
,
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Grieving
Passion
Pain
Suffering
enduring
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You’re twenty-one or twenty-nine and your heart’s been broken somewhere between four and twenty times—fetal-position-on-the-bathroom-floor broken, real-country-music broken—and you don’t know how you can ever be expected to go on like this for fifty more years and change.
—
Jade Sylvan
,
via Tumblr
Love
Heartbreak
Suffering
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You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...
—
John Keats
,
Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Pain
Suffering
Longing
Distance
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I was so sentimental about you I’d break any one’s heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It’s broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn’t it?
—
Ernest Hemingway
,
To Have and Have Not
Love
Sentimental
Suffering
Sacrifices
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Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts.
—
Kate Jacobs
,
Comfort Food
Suffering
Pain
strength
hurt
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I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
—
Henry Rollins
,
Henry Rollins - 70 quotes
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Sadness
Suffering
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Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
—
Samuel Beckett
,
Waiting For Godot
Torment
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End
Time
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Torment yourself as little as possible, then you’ll torment me less.
—
Franz Kafka
,
Letters to Milena (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Advice
Tormenting
Pain
Suffering
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Living is like licking honey off a thorn.
—
Louis Adamic
,
Licking Honey Off A Thorn: Reflections on Living Wisely in a World of Pain and Joy
Pain
Suffering
Living
Life
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Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.
—
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
,
The Gulag Archipelago
Prison
Soul
Suffering
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When we examine the moments, acts, and statements of all kinds of people- not only the grief and ecstasy of the greatest poets, but also the huge unhappiness of the average soul, as evidenced by the innumerable strident words of abuse, hatred, contempt, mistrust, and scorn that forever grate upon our ears as the manswarm passes us in the streets -- we find, I think, that they are all suffering from the same thing. The final cause of their complaint is loneliness.
—
Thomas Wolfe
,
The Anatomy of Loneliness
Moments
Unhappiness
Abuse
Hatred
contempt
Mistrust
Suffering
Loneliness
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
—
Franz Kafka
,
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
endless winter
Grief
Suffering
Sadness
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The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
—
Adam Johnson
,
The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel
Darkness
Grief
Suffering
Agony
Life
living in darkness
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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
—
Robert Louis Stevenson
,
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Suffering
Burden
punishment
Seclusion
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In order to understand, I destroyed myself.
—
Fernando Pessoa
,
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
Self-Destruct
Suffering
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Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.
—
Jay McInerney
,
Bright Lights, Big City
Heartbreak
Problems
Pain
Suffering
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She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much
—
Betty Smith
,
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Loneliness
Lonely Person
Suffering
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You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of being rejected.
—
Stephen Fry
,
Making History
Suffering
Love
Humiliation
Shame
Rejected
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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
—
Ram Dass
,
One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
Suffering
persevering
enduring
Experience
Living
Life
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Our emotional suffering is caused by our desire for things to be other than they are. The more we resist the fact of what is happening right now, the more we suffer.
—
Kristin Neff
,
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
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He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him
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Hans Christian Andersen
,
The Ugly Duckling
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trouble
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Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
—
Thomas Hardy
,
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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The deeper the wound, the more private the pain.
—
Isabel Allende
,
Paula
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
—
Marcel Poust
,
In Search of Lost Time
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It’s not the pain I’m afraid of; I know about the pain. What I’m afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.
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Stephen King
,
Rose Madder
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.
—
Ben Okri
,
Dangerous Love
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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
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Anna Funder
,
All That I Am: A Novel
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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Dan Millman
,
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
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It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. [He] was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?
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John Green
,
Looking for Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
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Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.
—
Alain de Botton
,
How Proust Can Change Your Life
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If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they’ll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough, something happens.
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Paul Bowles
,
The Spider's House
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We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.
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Alain de Botton
,
How Proust Can Change Your Life
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Failure
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You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
—
Elie Wiesel
,
Hostage
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enduring
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Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.
—
Elie Wiesel
,
A Jew Today
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She had a look of suffering and I was struck less by her beauty than by the extraordinary loneliness in her eyes.
—
Mikhail Bulgakov
,
The Master and Margarita
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He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
—
Michel de Montaigne
,
The Complete Essays
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It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
—
Albert Camus
,
Notebooks, 1935-1951
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No one and nothing is worth shrinking for.
—
Indigo Williams
,
Indigo Williams Quotes
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This is for the times you went through hell so someone else wouldn’t have to.
—
Andrea Gibson
,
Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns
Suffering
saving
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When you don’t share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.
—
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters: A Novel
Suffering
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True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
—
Yukio Mishima
,
The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima
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Power of Beauty
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