Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christoph Martin Wieland

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

Hans Kung

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

Hans Kung

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

Glen Cook

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

Horace

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

Henry David Thoreau

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

Jeremy Bentham

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Jean de La Fontaine

Better to suffer than to die.

Gerald Massey

In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.

Harriet Martineau

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

Gregory David Roberts

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

Gregory David Roberts

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

Gregory David Roberts

The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

Ignatius of Loyola

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

Horace

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Gloria Allred

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. You suffer patiently, submitting to the cruelties of environment, when you, individually, have the possibilities of changing them.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Willa Cather

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

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.

John Adams

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

Luc de Clapiers

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.