Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florence Nightingale

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Herbert Hoover

I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.

Henry Louis Gates

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Helen Keller

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

George Eliot

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

J. R. R. Tolkien

No Victory Without Suffering

Jean-Paul Sartre

You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.

Georges Bataille

How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!

George Sand

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

Jeffrey Archer

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

Jim Bridenstine

Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

Jacqueline Carey

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

Fulton J. Sheen

Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.

Fulton J. Sheen

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

Frank Ocean

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

George C. Wallace

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

Christoph Martin Wieland

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

Floyd Patterson

A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget.

George Santayana

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I want to suffer so that I may love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

Friedrich Nietzsche

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pity makes suffering contagious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

Friedrich Nietzsche

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Jim Caviezel

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

Jerry Uelsmann

When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

Jeb Bush

I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.