Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Weiland

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

Swami Vivekananda

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

Tom Stoppard

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Victor Hugo

If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

Victor Hugo

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Victor Hugo

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

Rita Mae Brown

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

Rumi

Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy

Viktor E. Frankl

Despair is suffering without meaning.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

Viktor E. Frankl

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Viktor E. Frankl

This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

Viktor E. Frankl

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Vaclav Havel

All human suffering concerns each human being

Steven Brust

You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way... Instead of asking what you could do, you ought to have been asking what needs to be done.

Samuel Adams

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

Tariq Ramadan

Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.

T. S. Eliot

We must learn to suffer more.

T. S. Eliot

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

Susan Sontag

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

Rose Byrne

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

Romola Garai

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

Sufjan Stevens

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

Sonia Choquette

Life can dictate that we suffer physical restrictions and limitations, but no one has the ability to restrict or in any way demean our spirit unless we agree to it.

Steve Irwin

I probably don`t show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

St. Jerome

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

St. Jerome

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

Sri Chinmoy

Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile.

Ruta Sepetys

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

Roger Daltrey

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

W. S. Gilbert

What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?

W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.