Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane McGonigal

A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

Ernest Renan

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

Cassandra Clare

Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really.

Caroline Norton

A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

Miguel

You only know that you’re in love when you suffer.

Kirk Cameron

God steps into the suffering with us, and He takes it on himself, and He walks through it with us, and He uses it to create something in you that is #‎ unstoppable .

Milton Berle

Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering.

Natalie Clifford Barney

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

Kate Chopin

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

Kristen Bell

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

Isak Dinesen

All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.

Iris Dement

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

H. G. Wells

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

H. L. Mencken

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

Greg Iles

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

Mark Frost

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

Muhammad Ali

To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.

Margot Asquith

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

Frank Herbert

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Jean de la Bruyere

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

Jay Leno

Clinton vetoed the repeal of the marriage tax. I guess Bill figures if he's married, then we all have to suffer.

James Hillman

One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want to stop the bleeding. Another medical aspect is the treatment of chronic complaints that are disabling in some way. And many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic. So there is a reasonable, sensible, medical side to psychotherapy.

Jaron Lanier

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Margaret Atwood

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who suffers, remembers.

Mark Twain

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Gloria Allred

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. You suffer patiently, submitting to the cruelties of environment, when you, individually, have the possibilities of changing them.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

Harry Stack Sullivan

There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck.