Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Pynchon

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

Thomas Ligotti

Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada

Victor Hugo

If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

Victor Hugo

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Victor Hugo

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

Viktor E. Frankl

Despair is suffering without meaning.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

Viktor E. Frankl

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Viktor E. Frankl

This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

Viktor E. Frankl

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Vaclav Havel

All human suffering concerns each human being

Stefan Molyneux

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

Swami Vivekananda

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

Swami Vivekananda

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

Ron Fournier

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

Rollo May

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

Rumi

Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy

Silvia Cartwright

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

Sigmund Freud

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

Sigmund Freud

Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.

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.

Randy Pausch

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

Rand Paul

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

Rand Paul

There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

Scott Aukerman

You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost.

Michael Leunig

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

Sheridan Smith

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.

Sebastian Faulks

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

Socrates

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

Socrates

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

Mel White

There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who suffer injustice and inequality.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The innocent should never have to suffer from the battles of others. (Valerius) I know, but it seems to always be the case. (Acheron) A furore infra, libera nos - spare us from the fury within. (Valerius)