Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

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?

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

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,

Bianca Jagger

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

C. S. Lewis

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Carl Maria von Weber

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Sagan

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Bertrand Russell

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Isabel Allende

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

Isabel Allende

Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

George Eliot

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Anna Maxwell Martin

I'm rather a practical person. I just get on and focus on what I have to do. I just don't get sleepless or suffer from the jitters.

Harrison Ford

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

Guy Pearce

I suffer from overheating quite easily.

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

Etty Hillesum

Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Ernest Lawrence

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

Florence King

I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.

Florence King

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

Florence Nightingale

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Herbert Hoover

I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.

Henry Louis Gates

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Helen Keller

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

Franz Kafka

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Eric Clapton

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

Herbert Hoover

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Evelyn Waugh

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

Evelyn Waugh

No one is ever holy without suffering.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.