Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've got a whole lot of suffering people,

William Shakespeare

Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

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

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.

Jimmy Carter

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

John Donne

The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

John Milton

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

John Dewey

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

John Calvin

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

John Calvin

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance......

John Bercow

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

Gary Coleman

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.

Edward Dahlberg

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Eckhart Tolle

The more suffering you create, the more suffering comes to you.

Eckhart Tolle

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

Eckhart Tolle

The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen.

Holbrook Jackson

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Hermann Hesse

All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.

Hermann Hesse

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured....

Hermann Hesse

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Hermann Hesse

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

Henry Van Dyke

Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted?

Jose Rizal

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

Jorge Luis Borges

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

Joni Eareckson Tada

God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Joni Mitchell

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

Khaled Hosseini

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn't matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?

Lucy Stone

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.