Read quote“我が国十何万の精神病者は実にこの病を受けたるの不幸のほかに、この国に生まれたるの不幸を重ねるものというべし”
About Suffering
Pain, adversity, hardship, and the human response to them.
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Words on Suffering
Read quote“There is nothing I hope to spare.”
Read quote“Envelhecer é ruim para qualquer mulher, mas, para quem foi muito bonita, é pior ainda.”
Read quote“We should ask why these people have to suffer.”
Read quote“My work is about these kinds of paradoxes.”
Read quote“Suffering is the price the intelligent person has to pay.”
Read quote“I hope I never recover from this.”
Read quote“I think companionship doubles the pleasure & halves the sorrows of life.”
Read quote“I like having something between my head and the ground when I crash.”
Read quote“I don't think you decide to become a writer — I think it's decided for you. I think it's an affliction.”
Read quote“I sing to the people who are suffering all over the world.”
Read quote“Dhamma, when well practiced, is like a medicine for treating the ills of life, enabling us to live our lives well.”
Read quote“War destroys all human values and is the greatest danger to everything which human beings desire and cherish.”
Read quote“History is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
Read quote“Pour avoir une juste idée de l’abîme de douleur dans lequel la femme est condamnée à vivre, il faut être ou avoir été mariée.”
Read quote“leaving them abandoned like beasts”
Read quote““Let us resolve to end this suffering forever and to fulfill our responsibilities as leaders of our peoples, and our duty as human beings toward mankind.””
Read quote“„wygnanie, śmierć lub sromota””
Read quote“The stories we tell of our hurts and joys are sacred.”
Read quote“What is new to the Africans is the fact that God's power is manifest in weakness.”
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