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Mon 30 Jan 2023

Grief

Posted by PJ under art, grief, quote of the day, suffering
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“There is a stage in suffering, or in any emotion, or passion, when it belongs to what is most personal and inexpressible in man and there is a stage when it belongs to art. But in its first moments art can never do anything with it. Art is the distance that time gives to suffering.

—Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Fri 28 Aug 2020

Matter

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, history, quote of the day, suffering
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“It would be fantastic if all lives mattered but all lives are not valued equally. You don’t have to know about Black history but instinctively you have to understand that when people are saying “Black Lives Matter” it’s because its Black lives that have been disproportionately suffering.”

—Prof. Olivette Otele, Elle, June 10, 2020

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Tue 18 Dec 2018

Suffering

Posted by PJ under courage and fear, quote of the day, suffering, unknown
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Random quote of the day:

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

—Thich Nhat Hanh, Fragrant Palms Leaves, Journals 1962-1966 (tr. Mobi Warren)

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Mon 13 Aug 2018

Suffering

Posted by PJ under imagination, quote of the day, reality, suffering
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Random quote of the day:

“We suffer more from imagination than from reality.”

—Seneca, Letters from a Stoic,  #13

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Tue 31 May 2016

Scars

Posted by PJ under character, quote of the day, suffering
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Random quote of the day:

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; thus the most massive characters are seared with scars…”

—Edwin Hubbell Chapin, Discourses on the Beatitudes

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Mon 25 Aug 2014

Load bearing

Posted by PJ under happiness, quote of the day, suffering
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“Let the coming generation attain happiness; but they surely ought to ask themselves, for what did their ancestors live and for what did they suffer.”

—Anton Chekhov, Note-book of Anton Chekhov, tr. S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf

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Fri 22 Aug 2014

Struck

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“Suffering breaks our world. Like a tree struck by lightning—splintered, shaken, denuded—our world is broken by suffering, and we will never be the same again. What will become of us is a mystery.”

—Nathan R. Kollar, Songs of Suffering  

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Thu 19 Jun 2014

To suffer

Posted by PJ under individuality, pain, quote of the day, suffering
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“Pain is the most individualizing thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone; to watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself. Only individuals can suffer and only individuals have a place in tragedy.”

—Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way

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Mon 25 Feb 2013

Suffering

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“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. This the mystery. This is what I must do.”

—Katherine Mansfield, journal, December 19, 1920

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Fri 9 Nov 2012

Suffering, succotash

Posted by PJ under art, poetry, quote of the day, suffering
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Random quote of the day:

 

“You don’t have to suffer to be a poet.  Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.”

—John Ciardi, Simmons Review, Fall 1962

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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