Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fyodor Dostoevsky

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I want to suffer so that I may love.

Helen Keller

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

George Eliot

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a puppy is being kicked in front of me. I must try to do something.

Scott Weiland

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

Steven Brust

You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way... Instead of asking what you could do, you ought to have been asking what needs to be done.

John Calvin

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

John Calvin

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance......

John Bercow

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

Heidi Julavits

The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.

Hirohito

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

Herta Muller

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

Hesiod

The fool learns by suffering.

Hesiod

Only fools need suffer to learn.

Herodotus

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

Henry Selick

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

Henry Ford

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

Henry Ward Beecher

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

Henry Ward Beecher

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

Tom Stoppard

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Tom Perrotta

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

Joseph Hall

I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

Katherine Anne Porter

Don't sidestep suffering. You have to go through it to get where you're going.

Karen Armstrong

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

Joyce Meyer

God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.

Katharine Hepburn

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer,

Marianne Williamson

No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.

Mark Frost

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

Mother Teresa

You can't do God's work without suffering.

Mother Teresa

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.