Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

Benjamin Disraeli

The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.

Dan Ariely

When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing.

Clarice Lispector

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

Elizabeth I

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Don't let yourself suffer needlessly, find a need to suffer.

Arthur Helps

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

Alberto Fujimori

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Adolf Hitler

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

Aesop

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aeschylus

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

Aeschylus

It is through suffering that learning comes.

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.

Alice Morse Earle

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

Albert Camus

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Albert Camus

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

D. A. Carson

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

D. A. Carson

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

Alexander Pope

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Donald Cargill

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

Donald Cargill

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.