Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Whitley Strieber

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Willie Nelson

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

John Adams

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

Louise Hay

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

James Altucher

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

Malcolm Turnbull

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

James Richardson

The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.

Laurence Sterne

I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.

Laura Hillenbrand

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

Laura Hillenbrand

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

Luc de Clapiers

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

M. Scott Peck

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

Eric Idle

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

James Cook

Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.

James Cook

We are coerced into faith by our suffering.

James Cook

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

Norodom Sihamoni

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

Emilie Autumn

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.

Emile M. Cioran

There is no limit to suffering.

Emile M. Cioran

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Emile M. Cioran

At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

Emile M. Cioran

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.