Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

Billy Graham

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

Michel de Montaigne

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Why use them? Why show them? We have had enough suffering and we don't want any more.

William Shakespeare

Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

William Shakespeare

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

Alice Morse Earle

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

Albert Camus

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Albert Camus

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

D. A. Carson

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

D. A. Carson

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

Alexander Pope

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

Donald Cargill

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

Donald Cargill

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.

Don Martin

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

Dan Harmon

Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.

Clive Barker

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.

Clive Barker

Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.

Dan Chaon

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

David Lynch

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

David Levithan

I hope suffering don't exist.

Dodie Smith

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Desmond Tutu

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

Delmore Schwartz

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

Alphonsus Liguori

The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.

Anna Sewell

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

Alfred de Vigny

I love the majesty of human suffering.

Alfred de Musset

Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.

Allison Pearson

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

Aneurin Bevan

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

Anais Nin

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.