Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

Alvin Toffler

Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

Anne Graham Lotz

Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

Anita Roddick

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

Chuck Palahniuk

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

Chuck Jones

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

Chuck Close

I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

Annie Proulx

I rarely use the Internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes, the lack of direct human discourse, all in an atmosphere of scam and hustle.

Andrei Lankov

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Anthony Daniels

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Anthony de Mello

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

Anna Katharine Green

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Anne Rice

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

Aesop

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aeschylus

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

Aeschylus

It is through suffering that learning comes.

Luiz Scolari

We suffered a lot, and when it was over, it was over,

Jane Austen

We do not suffer by accident.

Bob Dylan

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

Bodhidharma

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer.

Bodhidharma

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Brigham Young

If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity.

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Antonio Guterres

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history,

Anwar Sadat

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

Eckhart Tolle

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.