Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

J. R. R. Tolkien

No Victory Without Suffering

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I want to suffer so that I may love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

Friedrich Nietzsche

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity makes suffering contagious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

Friedrich Nietzsche

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Jim Caviezel

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

Jerry Uelsmann

When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

Jeb Bush

I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

Jean-Paul Sartre

You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.

Georges Bataille

How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!

Fulton J. Sheen

Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.

Fulton J. Sheen

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

Frank Ocean

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

George C. Wallace

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

Christoph Martin Wieland

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

Neale Donald Walsch

A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands.

Milarepa

I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

Milan Kundera

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more

Marcel Proust

Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.

Marcel Proust

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

Marcel Proust

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Marcel Proust

We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place.

John Adams

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

Louise Hay

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

Epicurus

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

Epicurus

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Epictetus

I must die. I must be imprisoned. I must suffer exile. But must I die groaning? Must I whine as well? Can anyone hinder me from going into exile with a smile? The master threatens to chain me: what say you? Chain me? My leg you will chain--yes, but not my will--no, not even Zeus can conquer that.