Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

Harry Stack Sullivan

There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck.

Frank Herbert

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Hudson Taylor

it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.

Honore de Balzac

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

Honore de Balzac

A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

Isak Dinesen

All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.

Iris Dement

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

J. R. R. Tolkien

No Victory Without Suffering

Horace Walpole

A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

H. G. Wells

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

H. L. Mencken

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

Greg Iles

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

William Shakespeare

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

A. J. Langer

I don't look at myself as suffering.

Aeschylus

Only through suffering do we learn

Aeschylus

Suffering brings experience.

Aeschylus

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Aeschylus

By suffering comes wisdom.

Aeschylus

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Adrienne Rich

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

Adoniram Judson

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

Ada Leverson

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

William Shakespeare

Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

David Levithan

I hope suffering don't exist.

DAVID FEHERTY

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

David O. Russell

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

Daisaku Ikeda

No one should be left to suffer alone.

Billy Graham

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

Billy Graham

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.