"What is the source of our first suffering?……" — Gaston Bachelard
"What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us."
More Accumulated Quotes
- In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that… — Jo Brand
- Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations… — William J. Brennan
- One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons. — Tilopa
- The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been… — Abraham Flexner
- Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist… — Roger Casement
- What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime. — Deepak Chopra
- The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. — A J P Taylor
- What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a… — Joseph Conrad
- Initially when I stopped playing, I had accumulated some burnout. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have… — Rajneesh
- Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it… — Charles Tilly