To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
~By Jessica Lange ~
Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
~By David D. Burns ~
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
~By Ben Okri ~
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
~By Will Harvey ~
In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
~By Andre Malraux ~
Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.
~By Ike Skelton ~
For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
~By Lactantius ~
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
~By Herman Hesse ~
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
~By Princess Diana ~
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
~By Anais Nin ~
We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.
~By Silvia Cartwright ~
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
~By Andrew Greeley ~
I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
~By Richard Pryor ~
He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
~By Antony Jay ~
Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.
~By Jim Doyle ~
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.
~By James F. Byrnes ~
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
~By Albert Camus ~
I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
~By Clare Short ~
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
~By Bob Beauprez ~
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
~By George C. Wallace ~
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
~By Betty Friedan ~
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
~By Aristotle ~
It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.
~By John Negroponte ~
After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?
~By Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao ~
When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.
~By Frank R. Wolf ~
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
~By James F. Cooper ~
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
~By Christiaan Barnard ~
As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.
~By Jean-Bertrand Aristide ~
Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?
~By Dorothy L. Nolte ~
Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.
~By Guy Verhofstadt ~
Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
~By Edward Everett ~
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~
If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.
~By Charles Bent ~
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.
~By Liz Smith ~
People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.
~By Dashiell Hammett ~
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
~By Marianne Moore ~
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
~By George Sand ~
Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.
~By Jason Patric ~
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
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.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
~By Hall Caine ~
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
~By Leon Kass ~
Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
~By John Lubbock ~
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
~By Susan George ~
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
~By John Ciardi ~
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
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.
~By Ernest Lawrence ~
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
There's always been physical suffering in comedy.
~By Don Martin ~
Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?
~By Arnold Wesker ~
If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
~By Donald Berwick ~
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
~By Paul Tournier ~
They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.
~By Lewis Tappan ~
There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.
~By Mia Farrow ~
The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.
~By Bill Williams ~
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
~By Horace ~
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
~By Chinua Achebe ~
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
~By Simone Weil ~
I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.
~By Donald Cargill ~
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.
~By Ernest Renan ~
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
~By Helen Keller ~
I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
~By Jerry Costello ~
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
~By Susan Sontag ~
The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
~By Gabriel Marcel ~
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
~By Mitch Daniels ~
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.
~By Egon Schiele ~
We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.
~By Sarah Fielding ~
Grief causes suffering and disease.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
~By Thomas Becket ~
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
~By Anatole France ~
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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