#suffering

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. ↗

— Tony Benn

#galloping #obsolescence #suffering #today

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#capacity #choose #divine #either #greater

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive. ↗

— Judy Collins

#avoids #being #had #heartache #i

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#husbands #lovelessness #marriage #married-life #matrimony

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system. ↗

— John Conyers

#care #constituents #country #due #flawed

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#altogether #apart #axis #cannot #defeat

The reward of suffering is experience. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#reward #suffering

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#emotional-wounds #happiness #hardships #self-image #suffering

Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It’s diplomatic pain. It’s television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans. ↗

— John le Carré

#suffering #journalist

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill. ↗

— Rumi

#depression #healing #pain #recovery #sadness