suffering

"If it reached my desk I would have done something about it."

"No one can hurt me—that’s my job."

"So long have I been languished on the shelf"

"The answer, I suspect, is that we are programmed to see Hindu-Muslim relations in simplistic terms: Hindus provoke, Muslims suffer."

"One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful."

"Where there is sorrow there is holy ground."

"When those in this assembly who have not yet done what should be done, see the Buddha cross over to Extinction, they will certainly feel sorrow. Those who have newly entered the Dharma and heard what …"

"What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander."

"Their experiences may be more simple than ours, but are they less intense? Perhaps a caterpillar’s primitive pain when squashed is greater than our more sophisticated sufferings."

"Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be."

"I suffer fools gladly because I am one of them."

"Cubism is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space."

"To paint even a bottle is dramatic. A leaf will do."

"I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken."

"Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it."

"Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it."

"We have an obligation to try to reduce the pains of others, wherever they are, and however the pains have been caused."

"She may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul…"

"If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is."

"To him boredom was a tragedy, for he had no more realization than if he had been an animal that any state he was in would ever come to an end."