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Suffering Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no…
- No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far…
- There is no limit to suffering.
- This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do…
- We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
- Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
- My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be…
- The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert…
- Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who…
- We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their…
- How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the…
- At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else,…
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