“I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness.” IfsThinkingFeelsChildrenLongActionLife IsSufferingHumanityInterestCan DoExistenceConsciousnessElementsEndureIllMiserableProtestFavourForesight Book:The Nemesis of Faith Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.” PainSufferingCommonExpressionElementsSignificantVansPollockFrida Author:Billy Cannon
“To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love and in order to become a person who truly loves - these are fundamental elements of humanity, and to abandon them would destroy man himself.” MenPersonsSufferingHumanityOrderJusticeElementsFundamentalsSakeAbandonTruth And Justice Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out. If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it. Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.” IfsThinkingLongEnoughUseHappensPainJoySufferingValuesHurtSorrowElementsMessagesFingersFlamesMinorsOptionalCrittersElements Of Life Author:Alan Cohen
“A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.” BookHandsSufferingCreaturesElementsFragileOblivionClumsyRodents Book:The Name of the Rose Source: The Name of the Rose
“Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.” SufferingFallEssentialsElementsFall BackAnnihilationDissolution Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.” SufferingFunLossWatchesDarknessElements Author:Pete Docter
“The earth should not be injured. The earth should not be destroyed. As often as the elements, the elements of the world are violated by ill treatment, so God will cleanse them thru the sufferings, thru the hardships of mankind.” WorldShouldEarthSufferingMankindElementsIllGods WillDestroyedTreatmentHardshipInjuredIll Treatment Author:Hildegard of Bingen
“The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by turns bitter, agonized, and grotesque. Even in the hands of white composers it involuntarily reflects the half-forgotten suffering of the negro. Jazz has both white and black elements, and each in some respects has influenced the other. It's recent phase seems to throw the light of the white race's sophistication upon the anguish of the black.” EnoughHandsLightSeemsSufferingTurnsBlackWhiteRaceHalfLaughingRichDogElementsJazzForgottenObviousBitterSubtleComposerPhasesAnguishGrotesqueSophisticationWryWhite Race Author:Bix Beiderbecke
“That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible, realist story that had these somewhat articulate characters, a lot of silence, a lot of obscured suffering, a lot of manliness, a lot of drinking, a lot of divorces. As my writing went on, I shed a lot of those elements.” WritingCharacterStoriesSufferingSilenceElementsTraditionDrinkingDivorceAestheticShedRealistTobiasManlinessCarver Author:Jess Row
“My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out of the practice of poetry, as does my Buddhist practice. Poetry is a very important element in the history of Buddhism in general and in Zen in particular. It was really Zen that motivated me to change the way I perceive the world.” WorldWayDoeImportantSufferingHumanityCompassionPracticeParticularBuddhismMoralityElementsEthicsBuddhistPerceivePoetry IsMotivatedWork Ethic Author:Sam Hamill
“The third element of success is your state: You must replace a default state of pessimism or anger with one of determination, of will, of generosity, of curiosity, of gratitude. The more we can put ourselves in such beautiful states rather than suffering states, the more they become habits of being and we end up making better decisions.” EndsStatesBeautifulSufferingDecisionHabitGratitudeElementsDeterminationThirdsCuriosityGenerosityPessimismDefault Author:Tony Robbins
“Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.” WorldSufferingThis WorldPositiveDepressionElementsLinksWorld Suffering Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and perhaps cruelty to it. So then it comes back to whether the suffering and cruelty is justified by its place in a tradition that has deep roots in the culture. At present, the view in Catalonia apparently is that it does not.” BelieveDoeHappensSufferingCultureViewsElementsTraditionRootsDon't BelieveDenyConnectedRingsCrueltyJustifiedCataloniaDeep RootsBullfighting Author:Bette Ford
“Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.” WellsMightSufferingUniverseInformationElementsTasksImportanceConclusionAssetsRiddle Author:Sigmund Freud