Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Yancey

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

Philip Yancey

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Philip Yancey

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

Pope Francis

The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.

Pope Francis

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

Pope Benedict XVI

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

Nathaniel Branden

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

Pankaj Mishra

Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

Ovid

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

Martin Amis

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.

Pope Benedict XVI

It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.

John McGahern

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

John Donne

The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

John Milton

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

John Dewey

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

Leo Tolstoy

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Leo Buscaglia

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

Lewis Carroll

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

Juliet Marillier

As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.

Leonard Cohen

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

Leighton Meester

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

Laurel Lea

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

Lisa Bonet

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness

Linn Ullmann

I have the experience of age and suffering.

Leo Tolstoy

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

Leo Tolstoy

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

Gary Coleman

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.

Lucy Stone

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

Mahatma Gandhi

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

Gaby Hoffmann

There are things to be afraid of - like extraordinary poverty and suffering beyond anything I've experienced, and climate change, despots - but there's really nothing to be afraid of when your job is an actor and you're at work, if you're in a place that is safe and full of respect and love, which we are.