#suffering

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#ends #endured #evil #i #i believe

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. ↗

— George Saunders

#beauty #believe #capitalism #eradicate #even

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused. ↗

— Martin Sheen

#focus #focused #horribly #impossible #lot

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#fact #hostages #in fact #suffering #terrorists

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things. ↗

— Susan George

#bring #change #change things #degree #going

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#being #conviction #had #i #lives

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#higher #higher level #level #raise #socialism

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#forgetting #god #had #just #sign

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago. ↗

— Merton Miller

#big #comes #down #gain #huge

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. ↗