Famous Quotes & Sayings

Melissa Marr

If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.

Michael Tippett

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

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.

Marcel Proust

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

Marcel Proust

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

John Stuart Mill

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

James Richardson

The cynic suffers the form of faith without love. Incredulity is his piety.

Laurence Sterne

I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.

Laura Hillenbrand

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

Laura Hillenbrand

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

Louise Hay

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

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.

Eric Idle

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

James Cook

Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.

James Cook

We are coerced into faith by our suffering.

James Cook

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

James Altucher

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

Luc de Clapiers

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

M. Scott Peck

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

Swami Vivekananda

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

Swami Vivekananda

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

Ron Fournier

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.