Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation.

Dodie Smith

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Desmond Tutu

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

Delmore Schwartz

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

Alphonsus Liguori

The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.

Chuck Palahniuk

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

Chuck Jones

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

Chuck Close

I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

Annie Proulx

I rarely use the Internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes, the lack of direct human discourse, all in an atmosphere of scam and hustle.

Andrei Lankov

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Anthony Daniels

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Anthony de Mello

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

Anna Katharine Green

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Anne Rice

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

D. A. Carson

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

D. A. Carson

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

Dan Chaon

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

David Lynch

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

Alice Morse Earle

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

Albert Camus

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Anais Nin

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

Anita Roddick

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

Tom Rath

Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.

Swami Vivekananda

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

Thomas Carlyle

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Saadi

He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

St. Jerome

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

St. Jerome

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

Sri Chinmoy

Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile.

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.

Sam Harris

To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.