Quotes: Suffering

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

It isn’t easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful… it’s difficult. It’s something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

The idea that every time you do a film you’re supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, ‘Oh, it’s really tough, my character is really suffering’ -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we’ve had a good time. I don’t think you have to suffer.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.

As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.