Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meir Kahane

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

Mason Cooley

The young are amazed when they suffer.

Mason Cooley

The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

Paul Erdos

The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.

Paul Farmer

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

Martha Beck

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

Oswald Chambers

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

Oswald Chambers

If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression,

Judd Apatow

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

Kathleen Turner

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly

Karl Marx

If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a puppy is being kicked in front of me. I must try to do something.

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.

Floyd Patterson

A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget.

George Santayana

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

George Sand

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

Jeffrey Archer

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

Jim Bridenstine

Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

Jacqueline Carey

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

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.]