We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
~By John Ciardi ~
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
~By John Calvin ~
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.
~By Martin Sheen ~
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
~By Virgil ~
It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
~By Cat Stevens ~
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
~By Carl Jung ~
In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.
~By Alberto Fujimori ~
How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.
~By Julius Gordon ~
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
~By John Ruskin ~
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 ~
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
~By Aeschylus ~
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
~By Frank Luntz ~
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.
~By John Vinocur ~
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
~By Sidonie Gabrielle Colette ~
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
~By Winston Churchill ~
We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
~By Naomi Watts ~
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
~By Madame de Stael ~
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 ~
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
~By Adam Schiff ~
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
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 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's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
~By Aristotle ~
Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
~By Pamela Stephenson ~
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
~By Saint Augustine ~
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
~By G. I. Gurdjieff ~
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
~By John Cleese ~
We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.
~By David Rose ~
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
~By Andre Malraux ~
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
There's always been physical suffering in comedy.
~By Don Martin ~
Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.
~By Harriet Rosenstein ~
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
~By Helen Clark ~
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
~By Norman Mailer ~
He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
~By Antony Jay ~
Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?
~By John Clayton ~
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
~By Otto Dix ~
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 ~
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
~By Denis Diderot ~
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 ~
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
~By Robert Mugabe ~
You're lucky I took me a vow of non-violence, or you'd be suffering some pain right now.
~By Mike Fink ~
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 ~
Grief causes suffering and disease.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
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 we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.
~By Jean-Bertrand Aristide ~
On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
~By George W. Bush ~
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 ~
People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
~By Laurie Anderson ~
We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
~By Patti Smith ~
I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?
~By Andrea Corr ~
It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
~By Rainer W. Fassbinder ~
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
~By Saint Ignatius ~
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 ~
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
~By Ike Skelton ~
When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.
~By Frank R. Wolf ~
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
~By Buddha ~
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 ~
Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.
~By Henny Youngman ~
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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 ~
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
~By Harold Bloom ~
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 ~
Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
~By Bill Pascrell ~
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~By Marcel Proust ~
The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.
~By Perry Christie ~
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
~By Aeschylus ~
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 ~
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 order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
~By Edward Everett ~
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
~By Hesiod ~
My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.
~By Fred Thompson ~
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 ~
A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.
~By Gwen John ~
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
~By John Acton ~
The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.
~By Lauren Graham ~
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
~By Alphonse de Lamartine ~
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