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- 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
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a working mother, wife, daughter, and daughter-in-law, I have to make constant moral choices. Every choice I make results in someone else suffering.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy from the unborn, and ignore the suffering of the mothers, then we are signing our own death warrants.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020