Suffering And Death Quotes

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  Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Fate, Meaning Of Life, Human Life

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.56, Beacon Press

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

  Ben Okri

  Love, Inspirational, Sympathy

  "Ben Okri salutes Jeremy Corbyn in poetry with A New Dream of Politics" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2015.

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• The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

  Lucan

  Sympathy, Death, Men

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• The only cure for grief is action.

  George Henry Lewes

  Motivational, Self Esteem, Grief

  George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.42, London, Knight

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• Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

  George Lucas

  Depression, Fear, Hate

  Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

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• Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Sympathy, Death, Pain

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.29

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• All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.

  Lin Yutang

  Sex, Pain, Passion

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Hate, Mean, Reality

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.

  Alex Grey

  Love Life, Web Of Life, Suffering

  "Nets of Being: Alex Grey’s Visionary Art". Interview with Jonathan Talat Phillips, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2012.

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• The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

  Juliette Drouet

  Abuse, Suffering, Train

  Juliette Drouet (2015). “Love-Letters to Victor Hugo: Works Of Hugo”, p.185, 谷月社

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• I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Essentials, Facts, Innocence

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• Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection.

  Timothy Keller

  Wise, Hurt, Healing

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• The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ are a substitution for the endless punishment of all who truly believe on Him.

  Nehemiah Adams

  Jesus, Believe, Punishment

  Nehemiah Adams (1861). “Evenings with the doctrines”, p.201

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• We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.

  Ellen G. White

  Son, Cost, Dear

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III”, p.966, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

  Matt Chandler

  Pain, Loss, Thinking

  Source: www.thegospelcoalition.org

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• Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.

  John Dear

  Acceptance, Order, Systematic

  John Dear (2009). “Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action”, p.82, Image

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• I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Attitude, Lasts, Facts

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.56, Beacon Press

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• True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Humility, Religion, Poverty

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• The plan of salvation could not be brought about without an atonement... The atoning sacrifice had to be carried out by the sinless Son of God, for fallen man could not atone for his own sins. The Atonement had to be infinite and eternal to cover all men throughout all eternity. Through His suffering and death, the Savior atoned for the sins of all men. His Atonement began in Gethsemane and continued on the cross and culminated with the Resurrection.

  C. Scott Grow

  Son, Sacrifice, Men

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• I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of our time and history, the tremendous loss and tragedy as well as greatness and nobility, an imagination capable of recognizing that where there is light there is shadow, that out of hubris and fall can come moral regeneration, out of suffering and death, resurrection and rebirth.

  Richard Tarnas

  Believe, Fall, Loss

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• ...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Decision, Moral

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• Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worthy of punishment. . . . And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good. . . . This inversion of priorities not only victimizes innocent people and squanders scarce resources; it completely falsifies our ethics.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Punishment, People

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• As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death.

  Helen Caldicott

  Mother, Technology, Doctors

  Helen Caldicott, Nancy Herrington, Nahum Stiskin (1982). “Nuclear madness: what you can do! : with a new chapter on Three Mile Island”, Bantam

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