Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert De Niro

If you don't co-operate you're gonna suffer from fistophobia.

Richard Rohr

If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.

Tullian Tchividjian

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.

Tullian Tchividjian

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

Tullian Tchividjian

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

Tullian Tchividjian

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

Tullian Tchividjian

We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.

Tullian Tchividjian

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

Vance Havner

We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.

Samuel Johnson

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Vincent Van Gogh

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Vincent Van Gogh

I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.

Vincent Van Gogh

The more you love, the more you suffer.

William Blake

He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.

Samuel Beckett

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

W. S. Gilbert

What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?

W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.

W. H. Auden

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

Thomas Pynchon

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

Thomas Ligotti

Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are close to me. And no doubt I project these fears on those around me and those to come, which makes it impossible for me to understand why everyone isn't an antinatalist, just as I have to assume pronatalists can't understand why everyone isn't like them.

Thomas Ligotti

Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada

Glen Cook

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

Horace

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

Henry David Thoreau

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

Jeremy Bentham

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Jean de La Fontaine

Better to suffer than to die.

Jim Bridenstine

Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

Jacqueline Carey

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others