Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

Ben Okri

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

Baruch Spinoza

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Ayrton Senna

I want to live fully, very intensely. I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs my life, I hope it happens in one instant.

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Edward Abbey

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

Edward Abbey

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Elizabeth Bowen

One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

Elizabeth Bowen

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

Carre Otis

It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.

Adolf Hitler

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

William Shakespeare

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

Yahya Jammeh

Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.

Adoniram Judson

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

Ada Leverson

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

Alberto Fujimori

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

A. J. Langer

I don't look at myself as suffering.

Aeschylus

Only through suffering do we learn

Aeschylus

Suffering brings experience.

Aeschylus

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Aeschylus

By suffering comes wisdom.

Aeschylus

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Adrienne Rich

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

Thomas Fuller

Tis better to suffer wrong than do it

Tadatoshi Akiba

No one else should ever suffer as we did,

Jane Austen

We do not suffer by accident.

Alain de Botton

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

Al Gore

We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Bobby Fischer

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.