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Suffering Quotes by Simone Weil
- The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move…
- Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The…
- Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together;…
- The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
- One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
- A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not…
- I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
- When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or…
- The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood…
- Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to…
- It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his…
- If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it…
- We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,†than to say, “This landscape is ugly.
- Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
- Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom…
More Suffering Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila
- As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. — Bob Beauprez
- He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus