Regarding The Pain Of Others Quotes

#1. In a world like this, media can help us to feel closer to one another, creating a sense of unity of the human family which can in turn inspire solidarity and serious efforts to ensure a more dignified life for all.

Pope Francis

#2. Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

Black Elk

#3. She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. What is odd is not that so many of the iconic news photos of the past, including some of the best-remembered pictures from the Second World War, appear to have been staged. It is that we are surprised to learn they were staged and always disappointed.

Susan Sontag

#5. I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.

Gary Speed

#6. People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

Matthew Specktor

#7. Sometimes I hesitate to use the term sexual abuse. It conjures up worst-case scenarios in our minds, and we think, "That will never happen to my kids." And we never begin the conversation regarding sexual abuse with our children. But one violation left in secret can cause significant pain.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

#8. Pain defines moments in the lives of all human beings. The trial is not the endurance of pain but the choices we make regarding how to endure.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain.

Susan Sontag

#10. If you beat a dead horse long enough,
you will eventually kill it.

Maximus Freeman

#11. So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

Taylor Swift

#12. All that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain ... a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in all of the self-centered, battling egos that are born and die in time.

Joseph Campbell

#13. As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#14. One can feel obliged to look at phototgraphs that record great cruelties and crimes. One should feel obliged to think about what it means to look at them, about the capacity actually to assimilate what they show. Not all reactions to these pictures are under the supervision of reason and conscience.

Susan Sontag

#15. Often something looks, or is felt to look, "better" in a photograph. Indeed, it is one of the functions of photography to improve the normal appearance of things. (Hence, one is always disappointed by a photograph that is not flattering.)

Susan Sontag

#16. By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of narcotic addiction and all of the unfortunate consequences that surround it.

Kristi Funk

#17. Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more.

Susan Sontag

#18. The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.

Susan Sontag

#19. Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking. Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead.

Susan Sontag

#20. With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence.

Susan Sontag

#21. Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

Susan Sontag

#22. Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

Maynard James Keenan

#23. An appallingly high percentage of doctors and other practitioners are still pretty much out of the loop regarding trigger points, despite their having been written about in medical journals for over sixty years.

Clair Davies

#24. It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

Susan Sontag

#25. Up to a point, the weight and seriousness of such photographs survive better in a book, where one can look privately, linger over the pictures, without talking. Still, at some moment the book will be closed. The strong emotion will become a transient one.

Susan Sontag

#26. Wherever people feel safe ( ... ) they will be indifferent.

Susan Sontag

#27. What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

Clyde Tombaugh

#28. Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.

Susan Sontag

#29. To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.

Susan Sontag

#30. Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a man? (Probably yes.)

Susan Sontag

#31. It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.

Nicholas Sparks

#32. I'm so sorry, I'm trying to keep your family from putting a hit on Tate if he elopes with the prodigal daughter."
"They wouldn't," Tate said. "They love me."
"Not that much they don't," Mel said

Jenn McKinlay

#33. I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.

Mark Ruffalo

#34. When we are aware of the pain, we have to train ourselves to lean into that pain. By leaning into the pain, we resist the temptation to avoid building fig leaves that protect us from the fear we feel regarding who we are. Our feelings are critical to our spiritual development.

Chris McAlister

#35. One thing is for sure, we can't be powerful and pitiful at the same time.

Sandra M. Michelle