Famous Quotes & Sayings

Holbrook Jackson

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Hermann Hesse

All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.

Hermann Hesse

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured....

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.

Joseph Hall

I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

Katherine Anne Porter

Don't sidestep suffering. You have to go through it to get where you're going.

Karen Armstrong

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

Joyce Meyer

God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.

Katharine Hepburn

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer,

Leonard Cohen

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

Leighton Meester

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

Laurel Lea

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

Gustave Flaubert

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

John Maynard Keynes

I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.

John Lyly

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.

John Lydon

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

John Lydon

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

Joaquin Phoenix

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.