#suffering

We do not suffer by accident. ↗

— Jane Austen

#suffering #prejudice

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job... ↗

— Emil Cioran

#judgement #suffering #judgement

Wisdom comes alone through suffering. ↗

— Aeschylus

#comes #suffering #through #wisdom

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering. ↗

— Aeschylus

#justice #learning #scale #some #suffering

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually. ↗

— Aeschylus

#enemy #hand #hate #ill #mutually

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#days #despair #lot #people #personal

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#as far as #concerned #country #dignity #far

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. ↗

— Clara Barton

#diminishing #evil #happiness #human #human suffering

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#become #bind #body #could #experience

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

#heaped #men #never-ending #suffering #sufferings