Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Levithan

I hope suffering don't exist.

DAVID FEHERTY

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

David O. Russell

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

Daisaku Ikeda

No one should be left to suffer alone.

Pema Chodron

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Ram Dass

Suffering brings me so close to God.

Ram Dass

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

Ram Dass

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

Dan Chaon

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

David Lynch

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

Albert Camus

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Albert Camus

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

D. A. Carson

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

D. A. Carson

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

Aeschylus

Only through suffering do we learn

Aeschylus

Suffering brings experience.

Aeschylus

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Aeschylus

By suffering comes wisdom.

Aeschylus

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Adrienne Rich

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

Adoniram Judson

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

Dan Davis

There is nothing special about your suffering.

Alexandre Vinet

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

Charlotte Bronte

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Edward Abbey

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

Edward Abbey

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Why use them? Why show them? We have had enough suffering and we don't want any more.

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,

Bianca Jagger

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

C. S. Lewis

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Carl Maria von Weber

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Sagan

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.