Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Brust

You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way... Instead of asking what you could do, you ought to have been asking what needs to be done.

Samuel Adams

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

Tariq Ramadan

Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.

Julius Caesar

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

Mother Teresa

You can't do God's work without suffering.

Mother Teresa

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

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.

Tara Brach

The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.

Tara Brach

Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

Tara Brach

As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

Swami Vivekananda

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

Tony Benn

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Susan Ertz

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

Susan George

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Sufjan Stevens

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

Sonia Choquette

Life can dictate that we suffer physical restrictions and limitations, but no one has the ability to restrict or in any way demean our spirit unless we agree to it.

Steve Irwin

I probably don`t show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

St. Jerome

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

St. Jerome

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

Sri Chinmoy

Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile.

Ruta Sepetys

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

T. S. Eliot

We must learn to suffer more.

T. S. Eliot

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

Susan Sontag

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

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.