Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katharine Hepburn

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer,

Leonard Cohen

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

Leighton Meester

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

Laurel Lea

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

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.

John Lyly

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.

John Lydon

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

John Lydon

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

Joaquin Phoenix

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

Jimmy Carter

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

Gary Coleman

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.

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.

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

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

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.

Therese of Lisieux

It's true, I suffer a great deal-but do I suffer well? That is the question.

Therese of Lisieux

How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.