Quotes about suffering

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[2005, Stations of Wisdom, World Wisdom, 102, 978-0-94153218-1]
God, Reverential fear and love

Source: From the poem Li-Hawā An-Nufūsi http://www.almotanabbi.com/poemPage.do?poemId=248, Line 8

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 2

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifi5KkXig3s "Biblical Series IV: Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death"

Life of the Party
Lyrics, Donda (2021)

1995

Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Persuasion (1817)
Works, Persuasion

Source: The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires

Source: Lord of the Flies

Source: Black Beauty

Source: Silence

Source: Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

Source: Cry, The Beloved Country

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: Anthology of Black Humor

Source: The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)

Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: The Bonehunters

Source: Spirit Bound

Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Source: I Capture the Castle

Sam Harris in * 2006
September
The Temple Of Reason
Bethany
Saltman
The Sun
0744-9666
http://thesunmagazine.org/issues/369/the_temple_of_reason?page=3
2014-05-04
2000s
Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Source: The Storyteller

Source: The Mark of a Man

Page 159
The Doors of Perception (1954)

Source: La Fanfarlo

Source: The Beginner's Goodbye

Source: The Rithmatist

Source: Post Office (1971)

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Source: Gone Girl

2010s
Context: The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Act I
The Title (1918)
Source: The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts

Source: Skeleton Key

Source: Invincible

Source: Acheron

Source: Suffering: Making Sense of Suffering 5pk

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: Shantaram

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: Community And Growth

Source: No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Source: Catching Fire

Source: The Naming

Source: Lover Mine

Source: Noli Me Tángere

Source: Specials

Source: White Oleander

Source: Sufi Thought and Action

Source: A Prisoner of Birth

Source: Eleven Minutes

Source: Shogun

Source: Rot & Ruin

Ch. 12 : The West, Civilizations, and Civilization, § 2 : The West In The World, p. 310
Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), Ch. 12 : The West, Civilizations, and Civilization, § 2 : The West In The World, p. 308
Context: Normatively the Western universalist belief posits that people throughout the world should embrace Western values, institutions, and culture because they embody the highest, most enlightened, most liberal, most rational, most modern, and most civilized thinking of humankind.
In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.
Context: Cultural and civilizational diversity challenges the Western and particularly American belief in the universal relevance of Western culture. This belief is expressed both descriptively and normatively. Descriptively it holds that peoples in all societies want to adopt Western values, institutions, and practices. If they seem not to have that desire and to be committed to their own traditional cultures, they are victims of a “false consciousness” comparable to that which Marxists found among proletarians who supported capitalism. Normatively the Western universalist belief posits that people throughout the world should embrace Western values, institutions, and culture because they embody the highest, most enlightened, most liberal, most rational, most modern, and most civilized thinking of humankind.
In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous. … The belief that non-Western peoples should adopt Western values, institutions, and culture is immoral because of what would be necessary to bring it about. The almost-universal reach of European power in the late nineteenth century and the global dominance of the United States in the late twentieth century spread much of Western civilization across the world. European globalism, however, is no more. American hegemony is receding if only because it is no longer needed to protect the United States against a Cold War-style Soviet military threat. Culture, as we have argued, follows power. If non-Western societies are once again to be shaped by Western culture, it will happen only as a result of the expansion, deployment, and impact of Western power. Imperialism is the necessary logical consequence of universalism. In addition, as a maturing civilization, the West no longer has the economic or demographic dynamism required to impose its will on other societies and any effort to do so is also contrary to the Western values of self-determination and democracy. As Asian and Muslim civilizations begin more and more to assert the universal relevance of their cultures, Westerners will come to appreciate more and more the connection between universalism and imperialism.
Context: A world in which cultural identities — ethnic, national, religious, civilizational — are central, and cultural affinities and differences shape the alliances, antagonisms, and policies of states has three broad implications for the West generally and for the United States in particular.
First, statesmen can constructively alter reality only if they recognize and understand it. The emerging politics of culture, the rising power of non-Western civilizations, and the increasing cultural assertiveness of these societies have been widely recognized in the non-Western world. European leaders have pointed to the cultural forces drawing people together and driving them apart. American elites, in contrast, have been slow to accept and to come to grips with these emerging realities.

Variant: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
Source: The Kite Runner

Source: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Source: The Time Keeper

Source: Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

Source: A Walk to Remember

Source: The Leftovers

Source: Life of Pi

Source: Writings on an Ethical Life

Source: The Midnight Heir

...in der ganzen Natur, mit dem Grad der Intelligenz die Fähigkeit zum Schmerze sich steigert, also ebenfalls erst hier ihre höchste Stufe erreicht.
The Wisdom of Life. Chapter II. Personality, or What a Man Is: Footnote 19
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Not yet placed by volume, chapter or section

Many sources attribute this quote to Brown without giving a specific reference to her writings. The earliest located is the following variation from p. 47 of Musgrave Landing: Musings on the Writing Life by Susan Musgrave (1994), which Musgrave quotes as "Rita Mae Brown's warning": "If you become the kind of writer who calls forth heated emotional states, be careful. There are a lot of unbalanced people out there. The statistics on insanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's got to be you."
Disputed

Source: Words of Radiance

Source: Factotum

Source: Gros-Câlin

Source: And the Mountains Echoed