I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
~By Layne Staley ~
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
~By Aeschylus ~
Grief causes suffering and disease.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
~By Albert Camus ~
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
~By Princess Diana ~
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
~By Christiaan Barnard ~
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
~By Michael Pollan ~
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
~By Virgil ~
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.
~By Charles Bent ~
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
~By Helen Keller ~
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.
~By Robert Orben ~
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
~By John Ciardi ~
We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
~By Lionel Blue ~
If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
~By Claude Vorilhon ~
Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.
~By Liz Smith ~
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.
~By Sarah Fielding ~
And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.
~By Martin Sheen ~
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?
~By John Clayton ~
After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?
~By Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao ~
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
~By Kurt Cobain ~
How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.
~By Edwin Way Teale ~
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
~By Hesiod ~
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
~By Tony Benn ~
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
~By Carl Jung ~
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.
~By Eyvind Johnson ~
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
~By Saint Ignatius ~
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
~By Layne Staley ~
But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.
~By Donald Cargill ~
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
~By Donald Cargill ~
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
~By Betty Friedan ~
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
~By Susan Sontag ~
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
~By Norman Mailer ~
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
~By Paul Harvey ~
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
~By Susan George ~
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
~By George Sand ~
The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.
~By Bill Williams ~
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
~By Jose Marti ~
I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.
~By Angela Carter ~
I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
~By Russell Simmons ~
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
~By Katherine Anne Porter ~
Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.
~By Jose Serrano ~
And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.
~By Clare Short ~
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
~By Albert Pike ~
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.
~By Fred Thompson ~
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.
~By John Negroponte ~
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
~By Paul Dirac ~
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
~By John Ruskin ~
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
~By Dennis Prager ~
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.
~By Perry Christie ~
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
~By George Orwell ~
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.
~By George Murray ~
It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
~By Victor Hugo ~
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
~By Ike Skelton ~
Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
~By Mary Lyon ~
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
~By Jerry Costello ~
I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
~By Emily Prager ~
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
~By Hall Caine ~
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
~By Lucy Stone ~
How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.
~By Julius Gordon ~
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.
~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
~By George C. Wallace ~
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
~By Mitch Daniels ~
No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
~By Edward Livingston ~
As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.
~By Jean-Bertrand Aristide ~
We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.
~By David Rose ~
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