Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Tempest Williams

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

Teju Cole

There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.

Randall Robinson

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

Shania Twain

Suffering does not discriminate.

Shunryu Suzuki

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

Shinzo Abe

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

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.

Roger Daltrey

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

Thomas Mann

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Thomas Merton

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

Thomas Carlyle

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Silvia Cartwright

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

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.

Juliet Marillier

As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.

Tom Stoppard

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Tom Perrotta

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

Sam Harris

To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.

Ron Paul

If you drink too much, you go out and you harm to somebody, you have to suffer the consequences. Same way with health matters. You don't have the right to demand that someone else take care of you because of your habits.