Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea Gibson

Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.

Andrea Gibson

Don't google your name. Ever. Don't “search” for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don't let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don't edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn't come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

Andrea Gibson

Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

Aesop

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain

Aeschylus

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Aeschylus

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Aeschylus

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

Aeschylus

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

Aeschylus

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Horace

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

Jean de La Fontaine

Better to suffer than to die.

Gregory David Roberts

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

Ignatius of Loyola

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

Horace

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Gloria Allred

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. You suffer patiently, submitting to the cruelties of environment, when you, individually, have the possibilities of changing them.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Om Puri

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

Octave Mirbeau

Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.

Emily Bronte

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

Emily Bronte

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?

Nellie Bly

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Neill Blomkamp

'Chappie' would be like 'RoboCop,' but hilarious. If you mixed 'Robocop' with 'E.T.' and it was... funny, that's what it is.

Joe Mantello

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

Jodi Picoult

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.