Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evelyn Waugh

No one is ever holy without suffering.

Ivor Novello

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Jack Kevorkian

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

Jack Abbott

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

Isabel Allende

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

Isabel Allende

Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

Harrison Ford

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

Guy Pearce

I suffer from overheating quite easily.

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

Gwen John

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Jack Kornfield

We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.

Jack Kornfield

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

Jack Kornfield

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

J. I. Packer

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

Lysette Anthony

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

John Green

There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

John Florio

Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.

John Flavel

He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.

Jonathan Maberry

Suffering is easier to endure when shared.

Jonathan Edwards

Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of His suffering or humiliation; whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of His obedience or righteousness.

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Jonathan Ames

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

Pankaj Mishra

Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

Ovid

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

Martin Amis

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.

Pope Benedict XVI

It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.

Pietro Aretino

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pope Francis

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.

Pope Francis

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.