Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Anna Sewell

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

Alfred de Vigny

I love the majesty of human suffering.

Alfred de Musset

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

Allison Pearson

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

Alexandre Vinet

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

Albert Schweitzer

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Tadatoshi Akiba

No one else should ever suffer as we did,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The cross is suffering with Christ.

Eduardo Galeano

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Edward Abbey

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

Edward Abbey

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Elizabeth Bowen

One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

Elizabeth Bowen

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

Bob Bennett

She has no case, she has suffered no damages, she was never harassed,

Charles Spurgeon

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

Charles Peguy

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

Dennis Prager

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

Democritus

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Bianca Jagger

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

Dan Davis

There is nothing special about your suffering.

Cornel West

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

E. W. Howe

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy

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.

David Levithan

I hope suffering don't exist.

George Meredith

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

Pema Chodron

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Ram Dass

Suffering brings me so close to God.

Ram Dass

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

Ram Dass

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.