Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

Henri Nouwen

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

Henri Nouwen

Who can take away suffering without entering it?

Heidi Julavits

The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.

Hirohito

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

Herta Muller

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

Hesiod

The fool learns by suffering.

Hesiod

Only fools need suffer to learn.

Herodotus

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

Henry Selick

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

Henry Ford

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

Henry Ward Beecher

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

Henry Ward Beecher

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

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?

Norodom Sihamoni

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

Meir Kahane

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

Mason Cooley

The young are amazed when they suffer.

Mason Cooley

The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

Markus Zusak

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

Malcolm Turnbull

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

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.

John McGahern

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

Scott Aukerman

You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost.