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Suffering Quotes by Albert Camus
- No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
- 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.…
- In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst…
- Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of…
- It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
- Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the…
- Suffering gives us no special rights.
- A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
- All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A…
- When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
- Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart…
- Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are…
- For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
- But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us…
- Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.
- The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to…
- The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it
- Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know…
- The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he…
- At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.
- But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all…
- Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life,…
- he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.
More Suffering Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila