Best equal & suffering Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.”

Suffering Found Offers Thousand Equal Strive Superiors Inferiors Quarrels Doubtful

Author:Joseph Hall

“In this astonishing novel Amirrezvani reminds us what all human hearts suffer and dare. Equal of the Sun is an irresistible novel.”

Humans Heart Suffering Novel Sun Equal Dare Human Heart Astonishing Irresistible

Author:Jonis Agee

“What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.”

Ifs Way Suffering Wish Perfect Needed Moon Equal Disease Errors Bread Intensity Desirable Not Being Perfect

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.”

Firsts Suffering Three Term Drink One Day Cost Equal Thirds Repent Sinning Intemperance

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne

“For my part I think the Learned, and Unlearned Blockhead pretty equal; for 'tis all one to me, whether a Man talk Nonsense, or unintelligible Sense, I am diverted and edified alike by either; the one enjoys himself less, but suffers his Friends to do it more; the other enjoys himself and his own Humour enough, but will let no body else do it in his Company.”

Thinking Men Enough Body Suffering Enjoy Company Humour Equal Nonsense Blockheads

Book:A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

“All the joys in all the worlds of all beings who have ever been or will ever be, will never equal the perfection of one moment of absorption into the stillness of nirvana.”

World Moments Joy Suffering Buddhism Equal Perfection Stillness Absorption

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely equal to only those which we suffer them to enjoy.”

Said Government Suffering Enjoy Rights Equal Opposites Privilege Granted Inherent Snowden

Author:Edward Snowden

“Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.”

Men Wells Suffering Opportunity Half Sky Development Limits Equal Affected Denied Equal Opportunity Sky Is The Limit

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“There's nothing bad about feminism. We have to help each other, because there's a lot of women in the world who are suffering because the fact is we're not equal. It's as plain as that. It's still a men's world. I don't know. We'll go on with it.”

Knows Men World Stills Facts Helping Suffering Feminism Goes On Equal Helping Each Other

Author:Yoko Ono

“We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.”

Thinking Heart Care Suffering Dies Poor Rich Subjects Fronts Example Serious Broken Equal Painful Rich Poor

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.”

Government Suffering Values Dies Fall Chance Equal Aim Burning Frightened Mice Tigers Take A Chance Hateful Sparrows Unwise Burning Bright Right To Die

Book:The wanderer

Source: The wanderer

“Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth. This book is for those of us (i.e. all of us) who've ever wondered what it means, and what's at stake, when we try to distinguish the suffering of the ill from the suffering of the human.”

Trying Humans Mean Book Suffering Equal Profound Ill Philosopher Humble Comedian Thoughtful Stakes Entertaining Reporters Woe Woody Gary Malady Pests Cranky

Author:Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains to be done.”

Done Law Suffering Religious Rights Equal Universal Remains Jew Vices Proof Civil Rights Remarkable Inherent Antidote Sects Insolence

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.”

Pain Suffering Equal Unwelcome Evanescence

Book:Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

“Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.”

Hands Suffering Asks Ready Equal Illness Refuse Contentment Providence Distress Consolation

Author:Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart

“Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.”

Suffering Moral Equal Ill Indifference Being Equal

Author:Nomy Arpaly

“The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights and equal rights are still the great unfinished business of America. The suffering has been disproportionately borne by the weak, the poor, the elderly and infirm, and largely African-Americans, who were forced by poverty, illness, unequal opportunity to stay behind and bear the brunt of the storm's winds and floods. I believe that kind of disparate impact is morally wrong in this, the richest country in the world.”

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.”

“Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference.”

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