- Nov 07, 2020
Suffering Quotes
Carrying pain, finding meaning.
One quote here describes a personal tribute - tattoos worn in memory of people suffering from hunger around the world - grounding the topic in something concrete rather than abstract. Related themes continue in Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. It's not a consequence of evolutionary habituation.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in recovery for a lot of years now, I've worked with a lot of people who've gotten sober and sat with a lot of folks who are suffering. Bearing witness is a really underrated thing; it's a big damn deal.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things later.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
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- Nov 07, 2020