Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Kaufmann

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

Walter Kaufmann

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

Walter Kaufmann

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

Walter Kaufmann

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

William Boyd

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

Woodrow Wilson

Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again.

Winston Graham

When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.

Winston Churchill

The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

William Tyndale

All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.

Yusuf Hamied

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

Wendell Berry

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

W. Somerset Maugham

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

Willa Cather

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Vincent Van Gogh

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Vincent Van Gogh

I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.

Vincent Van Gogh

The more you love, the more you suffer.

William Blake

He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.

Samuel Beckett

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

Kenzaburo Oe

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

Ramana Maharshi

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

Radhanath Swami

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

Radhanath Swami

We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

Therese of Lisieux

It's true, I suffer a great deal-but do I suffer well? That is the question.

Therese of Lisieux

How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.

Terry Tempest Williams

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

Teju Cole

There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.

Randall Robinson

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

Shania Twain

Suffering does not discriminate.

Shinzo Abe

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

Marcus Aurelius

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

Marcia Angell

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?