Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Willie Nelson

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be an unhappy number,

Woodrow Wilson

Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation.

Robert Sheckley

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Samuel Beckett

Unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

Whitney Houston

I'd rather be alone than unhappy

William Godwin

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

Chris Richards

I'm unhappy because we just lost. We thought we had it in our hands, but we just didn't execute.

Milan Kundera

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Lord Byron

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Trent Reznor

I was at my most miserable when I had everything I ever wanted.

Gene Stephenson

We set a miserable tone from the start.

Marilyn Monroe

it is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else

Joseph Brodsky

If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.

Larry David

If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.

Katharine Hepburn

The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.

Brendan Behan

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

Al Yankovic

Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

Billy Collins

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.