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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.