Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dalai Lama

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

Dalai Lama

Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?

Dalai Lama

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Dalai Lama

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.

Dalai Lama

To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation.

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.

David O. Russell

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

Daisaku Ikeda

No one should be left to suffer alone.

Dan Davis

There is nothing special about your suffering.

Cornel West

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

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.

DAVID FEHERTY

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.