Top 45 Art Of Suffering Quotes

#1. Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering (383).

Richard Baxter

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#2. Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.

Van Morrison

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#3. The art of happiness is also the art of suffering well.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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#4. I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

Wojciech Kurtyka

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#5. Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers ...

Mark Twight

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#6. It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

Hermann Bahr

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#7. Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.

Jay McInerney

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#8. As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems anyway. Play the music in spite of that.

Philip Pullman

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#9. It's a folk art of sorts, I said to Hoeller, always longing to kill oneself but being kept by one's watchful intelligence from killing oneself, so that the condition is stabilized in the form of lifelong controlled suffering, it's an art possessed only by this people and those belonging to it.

Thomas Bernhard

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#10. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

Marilyn Manson

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#11. Art. If you don't understand the roots of his suffering,

Thich Nhat Hanh

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#12. We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

Henry Rollins

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#13. Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.

Art Buchwald

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#14. Creativity is not the work of a few. We each carry within us the image of God the Creator; we each have the task of making the earth into a fairer, kinder place. The first step is imagining a better world, and that is most apt to happen when we suffer or look on suffering.

Elizabeth O'Connor

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#15. Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action

Gabrielle Roth

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#16. We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

Jack Kornfield

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#17. From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Criss Jami

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#18. Prayer Against the Darkness
Shekhina
Pray for us now
bound with scripture
and shielded with shawl
Armed with passion
and loving care
Pray for us now
against suffering, turmoil, and injustice
Pray for us now
against the chaos of the dark.

Leonard Nimoy

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#19. There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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#20. You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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#21. Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous.

Martin Clunes

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#22. Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

Piper Payne

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#23. Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.

Caleb Deschanel

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#24. No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

Elfriede Jelinek

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#25. EPICURUS WROTE, "Empty is that philosopher's argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts out the suffering of the soul.

Martha C. Nussbaum

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#26. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this. I think work is the best. (Frida Kahlo, p. 157)

Martha Zamora

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#27. Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

Judy Collins

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#28. For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.

Michael Leunig

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#29. Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

Ginnetta Correli

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#30. The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

W. H. Auden

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#31. I owe it all to words and art, the peace that came with a flicker of a pen silenced the suffering; eased the pain and life that was once filled with burden became sane again. It Became meaningful.
Art does matter, it made me, when the world changed me.

Nikki Rowe

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#32. The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and the occasional stabbing joys that come from being part of the human drama.

Madeleine L'Engle

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#33. One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

Alain De Botton

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#34. The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat: - let such a one be dismissed!

Sun Tzu

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#35. The whole art of living is to regard people who cause us suffering as, in a degree, enabling us to accept its divine form and thus to populate our daily life with divinities.

Marcel Proust

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#36. I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.

Rita Mae Brown

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#37. Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats

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#38. We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a not-knowingness, I think, that leads us back to suffering humanity with a more compassionate vision than most of our politicians have.

Sam Hamill

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#39. I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.

Joel Kinnaman

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#40. I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art ... in my case, life is always struggling to predominate and art naturally suffers.

Tina Modotti

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#41. I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered enough inside to hopefully be called an artist.

Christopher Plummer

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#42. When you are around people who are really suffering, you get to experience some of their suffering and that can make you stronger in your faith.

Art Hochberg

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#43. Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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#44. The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.

Freya Stark

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#45. Most works of art are, necessarily, bad ... ; one suffers through the many for the few.

Randall Jarrell

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