A Quote by Aung San Suu Kyi

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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Suffering

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Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese - Activist
Born: June 19, 1945

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

Aung San Suu Kyi

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Susan Sontag

The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita.

Anne Carson

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life.

David Trimble

Whoever degrades another degrades me.

Walt Whitman

Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

Gautama Buddha

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Walt Whitman

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Oscar Wilde

Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering."

Helen Mirren

The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.

Gautama Buddha

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

Luc de Clapiers

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

Gautama Buddha

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.