Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rachel Caine

I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

Quintilian

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

Philip Yancey

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Philip Yancey

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

Pope Francis

The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.

Pope Francis

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

Pope Benedict XVI

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

Nathaniel Branden

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

Mother Teresa

You can't do God's work without suffering.

Emily Murphy

No woman can become or remain degraded without all women suffering.

Elizabeth Gaskell

The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?

Louie Gohmert

Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.

Lisa Bonet

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness

Linn Ullmann

I have the experience of age and suffering.

Leo Tolstoy

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

Leo Tolstoy

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

Leo Tolstoy

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Leo Buscaglia

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

Lewis Carroll

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

Mother Teresa

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

Peter Tosh

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

Peter Kropotkin

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

Peter Kreeft

The solution to our suffering is our suffering!

Peter Kreeft

Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

Pema Chodron

Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering,

Pema Chodron

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

Pema Chodron

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

Peter Cohan

If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify it.

Phyllis McGinley

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

Pitbull

As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.

Gustave Flaubert

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

John Maynard Keynes

I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.