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Quotations by Subject: Suffering (23 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.: Rita Mae Brown
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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.: John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.: Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.: Unknown
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Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.: Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
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The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.: Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
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