Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

Norodom Sihamoni

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

Eric Idle

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

Joaquin Phoenix

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

Jimmy Carter

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

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.

Epictetus

What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

Epicurus

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

Epicurus

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Epictetus

I must die. I must be imprisoned. I must suffer exile. But must I die groaning? Must I whine as well? Can anyone hinder me from going into exile with a smile? The master threatens to chain me: what say you? Chain me? My leg you will chain--yes, but not my will--no, not even Zeus can conquer that.

Emily Dickinson

They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady

Tony Benn

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

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.

Simone Weil

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Radhanath Swami

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

Radhanath Swami

We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

Therese of Lisieux

It's true, I suffer a great deal-but do I suffer well? That is the question.

Therese of Lisieux

How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.

Terry Tempest Williams

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

Shania Twain

Suffering does not discriminate.

Shunryu Suzuki

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

Shinzo Abe

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

Marcus Aurelius

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

Marcia Angell

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?