Quotes about suffering
suffering legs conquer
I must die. I must be imprisoned. I must suffer exile. But must I die groaning? Must I whine as well? Can anyone hinder me from going into exile with a smile? The master threatens to chain me: what say you? Chain me? My leg you will chain--yes, but not my will--no, not even Zeus can conquer that. Epictetus
suffering age tests
They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady Emily Dickinson
suffering tragedy want
The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love. Henri Nouwen
suffering entering
Who can take away suffering without entering it? Henri Nouwen
suffering purpose noble
The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me. Heidi Julavits
suffering endure difficult
Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer. Hirohito
suffering doe humans
Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it? Herta Muller
suffering fool coping
The fool learns by suffering. Hesiod
suffering fool needs
Only fools need suffer to learn. Hesiod
suffering doe presumption
God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself. Herodotus
suffering enough screens
We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens. Henry Selick
suffering nations know-how
A nation that knows how to work will never suffer. Henry Ford
suffering made ripe
We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering. Henry Ward Beecher
suffering fiction doe
Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens. John McGahern
suffering wicked injustice
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. Bertrand Russell
suffering england world
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world. Benjamin Disraeli
suffering rewards bears
Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
suffering honor lord
The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
suffering earth christ
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
suffering christ crosses
The cross is suffering with Christ. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
suffering prison built
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business. Eduardo Galeano
suffering poverty unemployment
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. Hans Kung
suffering doe midst
God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering. Hans Kung
suffering spirit bigs
I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time. Glen Cook
suffering want avarice
Those who covet much suffer from the want. Horace
suffering gold want
I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold. Henry David Thoreau
suffering libertarian injustice
Rather suffer an injustice than commit one. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
suffering miserable enjoy
The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
suffering fruit language
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others. Jeremy Bentham
suffering matter bears
Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives. Etty Hillesum
suffering tools radiation
In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering. Ernest Lawrence
suffering fool
I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer. Florence King
suffering looks likes
If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to. Florence King