His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering. I never saw a man in so wretched a condition. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Robert Walton in “Letter 4”. Walton describes Victor Frankenstein to his sister.
The American people are going to throw you out of office. You will be repudiated and disgraced. You’ll leave nothing behind but the stench of epic failure. No American has ever failed this country worse than you. None. Your incompetence, ignorance, ineptitude, and old fashioned stupidity have caused economic collapse and made the US the epicenter of Coronavirus death and suffering. You have shattered American Alliances and weakened our military. You are a disgrace. Your name will be a synonym for losing, failure, and weakness. – Steve Schmidt On Donald Trump.
Black, Latino and Indigenous people are suffering and dying disproportionately. This is not a coincidence. It is the effect of structural racism; of inequities in education and technology, health care and housing, job security and transportation; the injustice in reproductive and maternal health care; in the excessive use of force by police and in our broader criminal justice system. – Kamala Harris Accepting Democratic Party nomination for Vice President of U.S.
It could have been stopped in China before it started and it wasn’t, and the whole world is suffering from it. – Donald Trump On coronavirus.
A little suffering is good for the soul. – Capt. James T. Kirk Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Corbomite Maneuver’.
People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. – Greta Thunberg At UN climate action summit, New York, 23 September 2019.
My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you’d otherwise cry. – Honeysuckle Weeks
Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one’s own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head. – Giles Foden
Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world. – Greg Iles
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters. – Helen Clark
I don’t think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance. – Hugh Masekela
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind’s collective GDP. – Henry Rollins
Israel’s creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords. – Harvey Pekar
The tithe payer helps the Lord build temples, where families can be sealed forever. The tithe payer helps Him send the gospel to people everywhere. The tithe payer helps Him relieve hunger and suffering in His own way through His servants. – Henry B. Eyring
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering. – Harold Bloom
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings. – Gary L. Francione
One principle I’ve been fighting for that doesn’t endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. – Henry Louis Gates
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them. – Greil Marcus
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. – Hugh Mackay
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. – Horace
Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It’s strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former. – Gary L. Francione
Expanded credit access has helped households maintain living standards when suffering job loss, illness, or other unexpected contingencies. – Janet Yellen
I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do. – Ismail Haniyeh
American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood. – John Mellencamp
