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.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Alone
  • Should
  • Suffer

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

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Characters

• 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.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Health
  • Devil

• 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
  • Mean
  • Happen
  • Suffer

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

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Suffer
  • Fools
  • Dean Acheson

• 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
  • Up
  • God
  • Hope

• To perceive is to suffer.

  

  Aristotle
  • Suffer
  • Perceive

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

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Succeed
  • Suffer
  • I Need

• 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
  • Violence
  • Shame
  • Suffer

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

  

  Euripides
  • Hurt
  • Suffer
  • Good Man

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

  

  Euripides
  • Violence
  • Slave
  • Suffer

• 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
  • Mind
  • Freedom
  • Chess

• 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?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • War
  • Man

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Suffer
  • Disciples
  • Martyr

• 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
  • Joy
  • Suffer
  • Melancholy

• Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Suffer
  • Disgrace

• Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Suffer
  • Wait
  • Endure

• The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

  

  Plutarch
  • Evil
  • Suffer
  • Hear

• In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Suffer
  • Help Me

• What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Suffer
  • Injury
  • Rising

• I always like to say, I am to most phenomenal thing that touched men kind...lol, lol. Yeeaa Men.. Besides that, I don't eat a lot; I don't eat a lot of carbohydrates. I am just naturally big like this, that's all. That's just something I do, if people see me on stage they are always like "man, that dude is huge". I mean I am in a good shape, I don't drink or smoke, so there are a lot of things I don't do.

  

  Bone Crusher
  • People
  • Smoke
  • Phenomenal

• A man couldn’t jump higher than himself, she pointed out to me. And he couldn’t help it if he was a “zoodnik”; one so annoying, he made you itch.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Help
  • Jump

• Consenting to suffer does not annul the suffering.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
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