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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. (Quote by - Michael Pollan)

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account. (Quote by - Walter Kaufmann)

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences. (Quote by - Albert Bandura)

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. (Quote by - Diana Princess Of Wales)

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by Death. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost? (Quote by - Sarah Williams)

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Love is suffering. One side always loves more. (Quote by - Catherine Deneuve)

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. (Quote by - Marshall Rosenberg)

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering. (Quote by - John Cleese)

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act. (Quote by - Paul Farmer)

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment. (Quote by - Jerzy Kosinski)

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life. (Quote by - Walter Kaufmann)

For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. (Quote by - Simone Weil)

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety. (Quote by - George Murray)

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity (Quote by - William Wordsworth)

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation. (Quote by - Muhammad Yunus)

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. (Quote by - Andrea Dworkin)

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

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