Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Donne

The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

John Milton

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

John Dewey

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

John Calvin

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

John Calvin

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance......

John Bercow

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

John McGahern

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

Lucy Stone

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

Mahatma Gandhi

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

Gaby Hoffmann

There are things to be afraid of - like extraordinary poverty and suffering beyond anything I've experienced, and climate change, despots - but there's really nothing to be afraid of when your job is an actor and you're at work, if you're in a place that is safe and full of respect and love, which we are.

Holbrook Jackson

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Hermann Hesse

All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.

Hermann Hesse

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured....

Hermann Hesse

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Hermann Hesse

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

Henry Van Dyke

Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted?

Henri Nouwen

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

Henri Nouwen

Who can take away suffering without entering it?

Heidi Julavits

The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.

Hirohito

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

Herta Muller

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

Hesiod

The fool learns by suffering.

Hesiod

Only fools need suffer to learn.

Herodotus

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

Henry Selick

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

Henry Ford

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

Henry Ward Beecher

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

Henry Ward Beecher

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

Joseph Hall

I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

Katherine Anne Porter

Don't sidestep suffering. You have to go through it to get where you're going.

Karen Armstrong

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

Joyce Meyer

God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.