Quotes about suffering
suffering survivor
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it. Samuel Johnson
suffering medical mum
My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such. Rory Bremner
suffering sublime repression
We suffer from a repression of the sublime. Roberto Assagioli
suffering sin lord
I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings. Samuel Rutherford
suffering tragedy firsts
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. Samuel Johnson
suffering peculiar providence
The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments. Samuel Johnson
suffering divine knows
Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer. Willa Cather
suffering lessons this-life
To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life Vincent Van Gogh
suffering alive kind
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
suffering how-to-love love-you-more
The more you love, the more you suffer. Vincent Van Gogh
suffering knows
He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you. William Blake
suffering artistic conditions
Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience. Samuel Beckett
suffering bills pills
What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills? W. S. Gilbert
suffering sorrow eating
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along. W. H. Auden
suffering masters
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters. W. H. Auden
suffering criticism ugly
It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly. W. H. Auden
suffering warning danger
Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive. Ursula K. Le Guin
suffering special atheism
For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism. Walter Kaufmann
suffering add needs
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
suffering problem knows
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know? Walter Kaufmann
suffering world doe
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. Walter Kaufmann
suffering film
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that. William Boyd
suffering armenia helping
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. Woodrow Wilson
suffering engagement three
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. Woody Allen
suffering plastic wells
A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever. William Nicholson
suffering thoughts-of-death
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself. Will Durant
suffering purpose might
I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment. Whitley Strieber
suffering going-away peppers
Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off. Sarah Addison Allen
suffering western-culture three
In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous. Samuel P. Huntington
suffering would-be affliction
Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them. Saint Francis de Sales
suffering doe serving-others
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering. Saint Augustine
suffering too-much want
For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much. Saint Augustine
suffering ordinary levels
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'. Winston Graham