Absence Of Suffering Quotes

#1. Pleasure and well-being is negative and suffering positive, the happiness of a given life is not to be measured according to the joys and pleasures it contains but according to the absence of the positive element, the absence of suffering.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Julie Christie

#3. Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

Sam Storms

#4. My hope is not in the absence of suffering and comfort returned. My hope is in the presence of the One who promises never to leave or forsake, the One who declares nothing "will be able to separate us from the love of God" (Rom. 8:39). Nothing.

Kara Tippetts

#5. The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one's needs and consequent freedom in the choice of one's occupation, that is, of one's way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man's highest happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence?

Franz Wright

#7. The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.

David E. Sorensen

#8. I'm not sure a real man would smoke something that sounds like a mixed drink ice cream cone.

Elle Lothlorien

#9. Seriously, when's the last time you saw me wear shorts?

Zach Braff

#10. In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

Paulo Coelho

#11. Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Theodore Roosevelt

#12. Being a father is a huge responsibility but a satisfying one.

Pierce Brosnan

#13. Evil and suffering are real ... They aren't an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. We are fallen creatures living in a fallen world that has been twisted and corrupted by sin, and we all share in its brokenness. Most of all, we share in its tragic legacy of disease and death.

Billy Graham

#14. the absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering. It

Brene Brown

#15. I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

Marcel Proust

#16. I will do what I can

Jude Morgan

#17. There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind ... there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Bertrand Russell

#18. Minho clucked his tongue. "Who cares about that? What's this freakin' stuff about her being the Betrayer?" "And what's 'Group A, Subject A1' mean?" This was Newt, who handed over the fire extinguisher to Thomas. "Anyway, your turn to break a buggin' door handle.

James Dashner

#19. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as were meant to be. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache ... The absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering.

Brene Brown

#20. Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

Samuel Johnson

#21. Good God, what happened to ye?" Shelton dropped the bucket of water he was carrying, unmindful that it spilled across the barn floor.
"I fell." Dougal picked up a brush and began to groom Poseidon.
Shelton gave a silent whistle. "Fell into what? A hammer?"
"Something like that.

Karen Hawkins

#22. Love and belonging are irreducible needs of all men, women, and children. We're hardwired for connection - it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The absence of love, belonging, and connection always leads to suffering.

Brene Brown

#23. Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.

Criss Jami

#24. Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.

David Lynch

#25. People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been
for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.

Ayn Rand

#26. A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

Ayn Rand

#27. The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

Bruno Latour

#28. Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.

J.R. Ward