Suffering is only intolerable when nobody cares.

Cicely Saunders

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Topic

Suffering

Author

Cicely Saunders

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Physician

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Saunders, Cicely. "The Management of Patients in the Terminal Stage." Cancer. Vol. 6, Butterworth and Company, 1960.

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We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave-to the ancient enemies of man-half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival for us all.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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Topic
Interconnectedness of all people The human condition
Speaker
Adlai E. Stevenson
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1965 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Stevenson, Adlai. Speech in Switzerland. Economic and Social Council of United Nations meeting. 9 July 1965, Geneva, Switzerland.

Another quote about Suffering

Sorrow comes in great waves—no one can know that better than you—but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us on the spot, and we know that if it is strong we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain. It wears us, uses us, but we wear it and use it in return; and it is blind, whereas we after a manner see.

Henry James

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Topic
Learning from suffering Suffering

Author

Henry James
Source
Letters of Henry James
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

James, Henry. Letter to Grace Norton. 28 July 1883.

Current Citation

James, Henry. "July 28th [1883] To Grace Norton." The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884, edited by Michael Anesko and Greg W. Zacharias. Vol. 1, University of Nebraska Press, 2018.