Best suffering & should Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.”

Ifs Men Should Suffering Culture Animal Towns Killing Satisfied Killing Each Other

Author:Compay Segundo

“To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.”

Ifs Should Ideas Facts Suffering Wish Forever Our Lives Source Eternal Unhappy Obligation Unbearable Eternal Life Live Forever

Author:Claude Vorilhon

“You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.”

Inspirational Should Persons Self Shows Suffering Goal Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery Miserable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make them suffer, because this would surely make them stop.”

People Should Use Reality Government Suffering Hurt Produce Officials Landmines

Author:Jackie Chan

“How much suffering and fear, and How many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the "I", What should I do with this great demon?”

Ifs Should Suffering Existence Ego Arise Demon Should I Clinging

Author:Shantideva

“If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our sufferings? This shared suffering confers the kingdom on us. For he spoke truly who said, 'If we suffer with Him, then we shall also be glorified with Him' (Rom. 8:17).”

Ifs Men Should Made Said Christian Suffering Share Flesh Kingdoms Spokes Orthodox Rejoice Orthodox Christian

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Should Trying Suffering Waiting Buried Haiti Debris Rubble Trying Our Best

Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.”

Thinking Knows Way Should Ideas Use Suffering Fall Causes Lines Nice Scene Crisis Clean Wander Havoc Ascending

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.”

Thinking Feels Should Persons Art Matter Pain Artist Suffering Like You Demon Pain And Suffering

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.”

Thinking World Should Real Reality Happens Suffering Happened Illusion Expectations Should Have Projection Whatever Happens

Author:Jacque Fresco

“You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.”

Feels Should Heart Sometimes States Suffering Natural Normal Rhythm Shock Internals Should I Pacing Sudden Death Defibrillators

Author:Victoria Gotti

“Why should you worry whether God wants you to reach the heavenly home by way of the desert or by the fields, when by the one as well as by the other one arrives all the same at a Blessed Eternity? Keep far from you excessive preoccupation which arises from the trials which the good God wishes to visit upon you.”

Way Want Should Wells Home Suffering Wish Worry Fields Eternity Blessed Trials Arise Desert Heavenly Preoccupation Good God Heavenly Home

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly.”

Should Pain Joy Suffering Courses Sorrow Pure Enlightenment Enjoyed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.”

People Ifs Way Should Firsts Dream Suffering Trouble Sacrifice Truth Is Blessing Spread Wide Trials Accompany

Book:Sermons Preached on Various Occasions

Source: Sermons Preached on Various Occasions

“So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.”

Should Doe Reality Suffering Example Photography Capture Realism Realist

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.”

“Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.”

Should Suffering Courage Should Have Have Courage Courage To Love

Author:Anthony Trollope

“We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.”

Should Suffering Order Scandal

Author:Saint Basil

“Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter---those who thus fail to correct sinners---actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life.”

Should Suffering Wish Causes Loss Healing Clear Failing Destruction Saint Vices Accepted Supreme Sinner Plot Remedy Good Health True Life Rebuke

Author:Saint Basil

“The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.”

Should Trying Looks Pain Purpose Suffering Teach Our Lives Lessons Pain And Suffering

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.”

“God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been written for gain, I think.”

Thinking Should Book Might Suffering Written Gains My Family Shame Worthy Publishing

Book:An Instance of the Fingerpost

Source: An Instance of the Fingerpost

“Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.”

Ifs Should May States Political Suffering Needed Members Agree Majority Ships Sentiments Pilots Assistance Peril Wrecks Voyages Legislature

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.”

Should Suffering Deserve Oneself Humble Sufficient Assistance

Book:Truth

Source: Truth

“A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.”

Should Mind Suffering Rooms One Day Reverse Prudent Misgivings

Book:The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Tragedies (Annotated Edition)

“As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.”

Giving Should Purpose Suffering Creative Birth Lovely Be Creative

Book:A Man of the People

Source: A Man of the People

“All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.”

Should Suffering Energy Sacrifice

Author:Richard Gere

“Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms.”

Should Long Suffering Effort Grace Dying Patient Protected Honored Symptoms

Author:Marcia Angell

“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.”

People Ifs Should Desire Certain Suffering Wish Enemy Alive Seeing Slave Prosperity Feds Humankind

Author:Bertrand Russell

“If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.”

People Ifs Should Years Used Suffering Fighting Enjoy Mad Making Love Enjoy Life

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty.”

People Should Believe Matter Used Certain Suffering I Believe Murder Prepared Punishment Penalties Vicious Death Penalty Hideous Lives Of Others Capital Punishment Forfeit

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.”

Men World Should Mind Wells War Play Hands Suffering Games Nations Wise Subjects Baby Kings Hero Toys Spoil Mischief

Author:William Cowper

“Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.”

Should Heart May Soul Light Seems Suffering Jesus Christ Sin Pleasure Grace Conscience Jesus Christ Constant Faults Communion Hinder

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?”

Ifs Should Suffering Wheat Cotton Shortage

Author:Benjamin Graham

“There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.”

“One suffers as a result of one's own actions. So, instead of blaming others for such sufferings, one should pray to the Lord and depending entirely on His grace, try to bear them patiently and with forbearance under all circumstances.”

Should Trying Action Suffering Results Lord Grace Bears Praying Circumstances Blame Forbearance Blaming Others

Author:Sarada Devi

“We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well.”

Want Should Wells Children Reason Suffering Easy Common Knowing Harm Motherhood Not Knowing Having Children

Author:Dora Russell

“I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.”

Should Soul Night Suffering Black Eternal Unity Chaos Just One Agony

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.”

Ifs Should Trying Art Suffering Subjects Circumstances Photographer Clarity Observation Crafts

Author:Dennis Stock

“Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?”

Ifs Needs Should War Suffering Peace Compassion Trade Obstacles Boundaries Generosity Nationalism Globalization

Author:Howard Zinn

“Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.”

Should Humans Mean Suffering Natural Conditions Overcoming Human Condition

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?”

Should Littles Doe Enough Suffering Behinds Strange Flower My Friends Fruit Yield Decay Visionaries Passing Away Flower Life

Book:The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther (English German Edition, illustrated): Die Leiden des jungen Werther (Englisch Deutsch Ausgabe illustriert)

“The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.”

Ifs Should Firsts Heart Littles Pain Suffering Dies Asks Sleep Pleasure Liberty Excuse Going To Sleep

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.”

“Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.”

Should Motivational Suffering Individual Company Industry Independent Sake Employee Stability Dogma Competence Continuity

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“it is my belief that one should learn patience in a foreign land, for I take it that this is the true measure of travel. If one does not suffer some frustration of the ordinary reflexes, how can one be sure one is really traveling?”

Ifs Should Doe Suffering Belief Land Travel Ordinary Frustration Reflexes Foreign Lands

Author:Gertrude Diamant

“Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?”

Should States Life Is Suffering Endure Profession Medical Medical Profession

Author:Marcia Angell

“That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.”

Should Mind Persons Whole Purpose Suffering Found House Special Chosen Shelter

Book:Typical American

Source: Typical American

“Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.”

“I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals.”

Thinking Should Suffering Couple Gay Gay Couples

Author:Dolly Parton

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