Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fyodor Dostoevsky

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

Friedrich Nietzsche

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity makes suffering contagious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

Friedrich Nietzsche

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Jim Caviezel

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

Jerry Uelsmann

When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

Jeb Bush

I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Frank Griswold

At this time let us be exceedingly mindful that bearing one another's burdens and sharing one another's suffering is integral to being members of Christ's body.

George Herbert

Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]

Christian Wiman

God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

George W. Bush

As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.

George R. R. Martin

As we sin, so do we suffer

George R. R. Martin

The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

Franz Kafka

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Anna Maxwell Martin

I'm rather a practical person. I just get on and focus on what I have to do. I just don't get sleepless or suffer from the jitters.

James Hillman

One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want to stop the bleeding. Another medical aspect is the treatment of chronic complaints that are disabling in some way. And many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic. So there is a reasonable, sensible, medical side to psychotherapy.