Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ryan Miller

Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.

Russell Brand

You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!

Rose Byrne

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

Romola Garai

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

Pankaj Mishra

Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

Ovid

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

Martin Amis

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.

Pope Benedict XVI

It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.

Pietro Aretino

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pope Francis

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.

Pope Francis

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

Rachel Caine

I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

Quintilian

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

Philip Yancey

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

Philip Yancey

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Philip Yancey

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

Pope Francis

The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.

Pope Francis

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

Pope Benedict XVI

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

Nathaniel Branden

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

Mother Teresa

You can't do God's work without suffering.

Victor Hugo

If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

Victor Hugo

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Victor Hugo

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

Rita Mae Brown

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

Rory Bremner

My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

Roberto Assagioli

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

Samuel Rutherford

I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.

Samuel Johnson

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Samuel Johnson

The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.

Rebecca Wells

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.