Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes

Consenting to suffer does not annul the suffering.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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• No one should be left to suffer alone.

  

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• Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

  

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• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

  

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• I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

  

  Rachel Caine
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• Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

  

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• Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. When infirmities, pains, or any adversities afflict us, let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "One day all these pains will have an end, and after them I hope to enjoy God forever."

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
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• To perceive is to suffer.

  

  Aristotle
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• To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.

  

  Muhammad Ali
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• And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

  

  Plato
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• When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

  

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• This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

  

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• Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

  

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• Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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• Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

  

  William Empson
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• I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don't be calculated about it and say, 'Okay, I'm gonna tweet, and I'm gonna podcast, and I'm gonna do standup, and one of those things is going to lead me to my own TV show.' I don't think that should be the goal.

  

  Scott Aukerman
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• I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

  

  Miriam Makeba
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• I’ve no idea what I shall do when I am grown! I don’t suppose there is much call for Knights or Bishops or Heroines in Omaha or even Chicago. And I’m sure other girls are much better at it than I.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
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• Consenting to suffer does not annul the suffering.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Suffer