Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno

Clinton vetoed the repeal of the marriage tax. I guess Bill figures if he's married, then we all have to suffer.

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.

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.

Milton Berle

Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering.

Natalie Clifford Barney

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

Kate Chopin

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

Kristen Bell

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

Isak Dinesen

All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.

Iris Dement

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

H. G. Wells

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

H. L. Mencken

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

Greg Iles

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Gloria Allred

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

Horace Walpole

A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

Hudson Taylor

it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.

Honore de Balzac

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

Honore de Balzac

A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

J. R. R. Tolkien

No Victory Without Suffering

Neale Donald Walsch

A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands.

Milarepa

I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

Milan Kundera

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more

Marcel Proust

Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.

Marcel Proust

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Marcel Proust

We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place.

Marcel Proust

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

Marcel Proust

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Jose Rizal

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

Jorge Luis Borges

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

Joni Eareckson Tada

God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.