Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Martin

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

Dalai Lama

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

Dalai Lama

Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?

Dalai Lama

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Dalai Lama

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.

Dalai Lama

To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation.

Dodie Smith

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Desmond Tutu

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

Delmore Schwartz

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

Alphonsus Liguori

The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.

Aneurin Bevan

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

Anais Nin

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

Anais Nin

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

Alvin Toffler

Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

Anne Graham Lotz

Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

Anita Roddick

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

Chuck Palahniuk

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

Chuck Jones

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

Chuck Close

I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

Annie Proulx

I rarely use the Internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes, the lack of direct human discourse, all in an atmosphere of scam and hustle.

Dan Harmon

Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.

Clive Barker

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.

Clive Barker

Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.

Andrei Lankov

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Anthony Daniels

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Anthony de Mello

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

Anna Katharine Green

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

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.