Famous Quotes & Sayings

Socrates

So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?

Socrates

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

Jodi Picoult

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

Jodi Picoult

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

John Green

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

John Green

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

John Green

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

Anna Maxwell Martin

I'm rather a practical person. I just get on and focus on what I have to do. I just don't get sleepless or suffer from the jitters.

DAVID FEHERTY

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

David O. Russell

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

Daisaku Ikeda

No one should be left to suffer alone.

Jack Kevorkian

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

Jack Abbott

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

Isabel Allende

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

Isabel Allende

Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

Franz Kafka

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Eric Clapton

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

Jack Kornfield

We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.

Jack Kornfield

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

Jack Kornfield

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

J. I. Packer

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

Ivor Novello

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Harrison Ford

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

Guy Pearce

I suffer from overheating quite easily.

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

Gwen John

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Dan Chaon

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Gloria Allred

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

Floyd Patterson

A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget.

George Santayana

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.