Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Carre Otis

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