#suffering

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it. ↗

— Frank R. Wolf

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#infinity #nature #obscure #permanent #shares

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#delegates #destruction #experience #feelings #great

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#borders #pain #separated #suffering

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. ↗

— Horace

#experience #instruction #life #name #parent

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

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

#causes #does #flesh #form #most

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

#deserve #honor #i #i am #i do

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#hope #love #pain #suffering #waiting

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#heart #life #suffering #life