Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Ligotti

Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are close to me. And no doubt I project these fears on those around me and those to come, which makes it impossible for me to understand why everyone isn't an antinatalist, just as I have to assume pronatalists can't understand why everyone isn't like them.

Thomas Ligotti

Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada

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.

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

Fulton J. Sheen

Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.

Fulton J. Sheen

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

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.

Jean-Paul Sartre

You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.

Georges Bataille

How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!

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.

Herbert Hoover

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Evelyn Waugh

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

Evelyn Waugh

No one is ever holy without suffering.

Etty Hillesum

Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

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.