Artistic Quote by Samuel Beckett

The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is…

— Michael Jackson

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

— Samuel Beckett

“Suffering is inevitable in the cosmos, but preventing that suffering from manifesting as bad moods or bad behavior is absolutely possible in even the…

— Andrew Daley

I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists…

— Bart Yates

Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain…

— John Milton

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.

— Leonard Cohen

Suffering is to the heart and soul as tears are to the eyes, cleansing and expelling toxicity from the inner system. When we do…

— Tian Dayton

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

— Victor Hugo

One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had…

— Erich Fromm

If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts…

— Radhanath Swami

Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for,…

— Cesare Pavese