More quotations tagged with “suffering”
Once I wanted total happiness—now I will settle for a little less pain.
—Ashleigh Brilliant
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
—Norman Mailer
For, as wolves and tigers gorge themselves with flesh and lick their gory chops, so do nations gorge themselves with human victims, not in detail, but in masses, by wholesale.
—Henry C. Wright
The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
—Michel de Montaigne
My father… used to say, "I need my anger. It obliges me to take action." I think my father was partly right. Anger arises, naturally, to signal disturbing situations that might require action. But actions initiated in anger perpetuate suffering. The most effective actions are those conceived in the wisdom of clarity.
—Sylvia Boorstein