Suffer Quotes
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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.
Marcel Proust
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The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will be that kind of man--glad that God made you a man, glad to shoulder the burden of manliness in a time when to do so will often bring contempt.
Elisabeth Elliot
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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
Victor Hugo
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The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?
Honore de Balzac
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He who is attached to things will suffer much.
Lao Tzu
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Until we get to the point where we've had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful love, we are bound to take painful roads. We are destined to play out our frivolous disasters until we declare ourselves finished and done with them. How much pain do we have to suffer before we are sure we want no more? As much, it seems, as we have to until we don't.
Marianne Williamson
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I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.
Katy Butler
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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
Nikolai Gogol
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But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.
Albert Camus
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To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.
Benedict Joseph Labre
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I'd rather suffer 1000 truths than enjoy 1 lie.
Bill Loguidice
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What right had they to make me suffer like that?
Anna Sewell
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So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?
Socrates
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A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
Honore de Balzac
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Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.
Antony Flew
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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
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A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.
Sophocles
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A girl should command attention, not suffer it.
Ami McKay
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I must die. I must be imprisoned. I must suffer exile. But must I die groaning? Must I whine as well? Can anyone hinder me from going into exile with a smile? The master threatens to chain me: what say you? Chain me? My leg you will chain--yes, but not my will--no, not even Zeus can conquer that.
Epictetus
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it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.
Winifred Holtby
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Children working in the carpet industry often suffer from many health problems. These include breathing difficulties from inhaling the carpet fibres, arthritis in their fingers from tying the tiny knots, and growth deformities from working hunched over their looms for so long every day.
Craig Kielburger