#suffering

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#endured #forever #four #free #had

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

#against #deprived #disgrace #himself #man

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#between #bliss #dividing #dividing line #eternity

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cause #endangered #good #good cause #gravely

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#box #crime #great #hands #his

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. ↗

— John Green

#chocolate #joy #pleasures #suffering #think

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#real #suffering #terrorists #torture

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. ↗

— John Berger

#psychology #suffering #experience

I believe in people, especially suffering people. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#especially #i #i believe #i believe in #people

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#our #pleasures #remember #sufferings