"I hope suffering don't exist."

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David Levithan

#Suffering Quotes

“Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.”

Source : Philip Rieff, Arnold M. Eisen, Gideon Lewis-Kraus (2008). “The Jew of Culture: Freud, Moses, and Modernity”, p.69, University of Virginia Press
“Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.”

Source : Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company
“I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have itâ€™s poetry, Iâ€™ll allow that. When an old dwelling starts looking desolate, a mixture of regret and anxiety comes over us and we feel like we are leaving a safe harbor for the rolling sea. As for the new place, it looks on us with alien eyes, it has nothing to say to us, it is cold.”
“Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.”
“I must read. I must read. I must read.”
“I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.”

Source : John Guare (2010). “Six Degrees of Separation”, p.22, A&C Black
“Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.”
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”

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