He Who Suffers Quotes

#1. We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#2. He who suffers, remembers.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. He who suffers conquers.

Leland Ryken

#4. The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#5. He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Plato

#6. The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#7. He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#8. He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

Alphonsus Liguori

#9. He who suffers, triumphs.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#10. He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#11. Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Eric Hoffer

#12. The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#13. A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget.

Floyd Patterson

#14. Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

Luigi Pirandello

#15. He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.

Gautama Buddha

#16. when you come to higher suffering- for an idea, for instance- he will very rarely admit that, perhaps because my face strikes him as not at all what he fancies a man should have who suffers for an idea. And so he deprives me instantly of his favor, and

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. God doesn't call you to be a minister, who worries, suffers and weeps. He calls you to accomplish whatever He's called you to by His grace, with thanksgiving.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. while I may not be able to trace the Artist's hand at all times, I can always trust his motives. The God who is in control of all things, who acts behind the scenes in all things, is also the God who willingly suffers. He is the one I can shout at, cry with and find comfort in.

John Dickson

#19. The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

Frank Robinson

#20. Everyone hurries his life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who bestows all of his time on his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the morrow.

Seneca.

#21. He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.

Publilius Syrus

#22. If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our sufferings? This shared suffering confers the kingdom on us. For he spoke truly who said, 'If we suffer with Him, then we shall also be glorified with Him' (Rom. 8:17).

Maximus The Confessor

#23. I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

Roger Daltrey

#24. The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Edmund Burke

#25. A man who fights for his dream suffers far more when something doesn't go well, because he cannot use the famous excuse: oh, well in fact that wasn't exactly what I wanted anyway ...

Paulo Coelho

#26. Qui craint de souffrir, il souffre deja de ce qu'il craint."
"Who fears to suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Melissa Jensen

#27. Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering.

Anandamayi Ma

#28. Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

Honore De Balzac

#29. He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

Seneca.

#30. I believe a megalomaniac is someone who suffers from delusions about their own power. Trust me," he says, and this time I am certain I see mirth dancing in his eyes, "I suffer no delusions about the extent of my power.

J. Kenner

#31. On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others, he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the Warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path.

Paulo Coelho

#32. I never got that show - Les Miz. It's about the French guy, right, who steals a loaf of bread, and then he suffers for the rest of his life. For Toast. Get over it!

Paul Rudnick

#33. Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#34. He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

Michel De Montaigne

#35. The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Will Durant

#36. He is in no real danger. He merely suffers from a lethargy, a sickness that is common among the depressed. He has forgotten who he really is, but he will recover, for he used to know me, and all I have to do is cloud the mist that beclouds his vision.

Boethius

#37. One Jewish lady was talking to the neighbor, and she said, "The psychoanalyst who is treating my son has said that my son suffers from an Oedipus complex." And the neighbor lady said, "Oedipus schmoedipus! Doesn't matter as long as he is a good boy and loves his mother!

Osho

#38. Hugh Grant, who several times has announced that he was thinking of retiring from acting, has said that he suffers from panic attacks when the cameras start rolling.

Scott Stossel

#39. As the old French proverb warns: He who fears to suffer suffers from fear.

Debra Ollivier

#40. He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Solomon

#41. He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#42. What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

Jodi Picoult

#43. He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

Beilby Porteus

#44. 207. He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk.

Anonymous

#45. A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

Karl Abraham

#46. He who sees all beings in his Self and his Self in all beings, he never suffers; because when he sees all creatures within his true Self, then jealousy, grief and hatred vanish.

Paramananda

#47. If a husband works until six he gets only a little drunk on the way home and does not waste too much. If he works only until five he is drunk every night and one has no money. It is the wife of the working man who suffers from this shortening of hours.

Ernest Hemingway,

#48. The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#49. For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Aeschylus

#50. I didn't suffer for Jesus in prison. No! I was with Jesus and I experienced his very real presence, joy, and peace every day. It's not those in prison for the sake of the gospel who suffer. The person who suffers is he who never experiences God's intimate presence.

Brother Yun