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“The fleshy soul is crucified in suffering.”

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“Jacob, my old friend came first. he was sad. I shouted down to him, "The stake, old friend of a lifetime, do something!" "But we all sit on one", was his reply. "I don't see you on one," I objected. "And we see nobody else's either. Each of us is alone, on his own stake. This is the stake we share.”

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“A true woman wants her whims to be an international suffering.”

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Source: Plotless

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Book:The Stone Sky

Source: The Stone Sky

“Suffering is only for a short time as it seems right for crucifixion of the fleshy soul.”

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“... when we take into account what we know about happiness and suffering in psychological and neuroscientific terms, we find reasons to doubt that (to use Popper’s phrase) we can treat degrees of pain as “negative degrees of pleasure”, and to doubt that pleasure can ethically “cancel out” pain — any more than putting people far above a water surface can cancel out or outweigh the bad of putting people far below it.”

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Book:Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications

Source: Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications

“Often the pain that makes us feel most stuck is not our suffering; it is experiencing distress in the presence of people who expect us to get better faster than we can.”

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Book:This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers

Source: This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers

“Don't even think about it. Who would have children. You have kids, they grow up, they hate you and you die.”

Life Children Pain Suffering Parents Antinatalism

Book:Blasted

Source: Blasted

“It's because it's the beginning, and also the end. That was what she loved about the place where the water met the land. A promise of something fresh, a suggestion that even if what is happening now is to be suffered, there is an end and a beginning.”

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Book:Messenger of Truth

Source: Messenger of Truth

“O große Lieb, o Lieb ohn alle Maße, Die dich gebracht auf diese Marterstraße! Ich lebte mit der Welt in Lust und Freuden, Und du mußt leiden. O great love, o love beyond measure, that brought You to this path of martyrdom! I lived with the world in delight and joy, and You had to suffer. BWV 245 - "Johannes-Passion" Oratorio for Good Friday, 3. Chorale.”

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Author:Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer)

“If you want peace, accept. If you want suffering, expect.”

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Author:Maxime Lagacé