Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Gaskell

The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?

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.

Gary Coleman

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.

Lucy Stone

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

Mahatma Gandhi

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

Gaby Hoffmann

There are things to be afraid of - like extraordinary poverty and suffering beyond anything I've experienced, and climate change, despots - but there's really nothing to be afraid of when your job is an actor and you're at work, if you're in a place that is safe and full of respect and love, which we are.

Julius Caesar

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

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.

M. Scott Peck

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

Matthieu Ricard

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

Matthieu Ricard

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

Matthieu Ricard

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Matthew Arnold

And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.

Kirk Cameron

God steps into the suffering with us, and He takes it on himself, and He walks through it with us, and He uses it to create something in you that is #‎ unstoppable .

Kenneth Scott Latourette

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

Kathleen Turner

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly

Karl Marx

If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. You suffer patiently, submitting to the cruelties of environment, when you, individually, have the possibilities of changing them.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

Judd Apatow

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

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.