Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

Mark Frost

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

Michel de Montaigne

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Michel de Montaigne

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

Marianne Williamson

No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

unearned suffering is redemptive.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

Maria Edgeworth

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets ...

Marian Keyes

There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

Princess Diana

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

Publilius Syrus

He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.

Pope Paul VI

Perhaps the Lord has called me and preserved me for this service not because I am particularly fit for it, or so that I can govern and rescue the Church from her present difficulties, but so that I can suffer something for the Church, and in that way it will be clear that he, and no other, is her guide and saviour

Margaret Atwood

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who suffers, remembers.

Mark Twain

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

Patch Adams

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

Park Geun-hye

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

Park Dietz

One of the few times I'm hit emotionally is when I listen to the tapes sadists make of torturing their victims. There the person is currently suffering, you can hear them suffer, and that calls out for an empathic response. But when they're dead, when they're no longer suffering, when it's over, it's hard to feel empathetic for the corpse.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Larry Wall

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...

Lafcadio Hearn

One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

Oscar Wilde

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Isak Dinesen

All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.

Iris Dement

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

Natalie Clifford Barney

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

Kate Chopin

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

Kristen Bell

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

Randy Pausch

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

Rand Paul

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

Rand Paul

There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.

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.