Top 100 To Suffer Quotes
#1. It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows.
Edith Hamilton
#2. Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#3. The golden trail was blazed and I was reminded of the eternal, of Mozart, of the stars. For an hour I could breathe again and live and face existence, without having to suffer torment, fear or shame.
Hermann Hesse
#4. I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.
Edward Snowden
#5. As long as we have all these conflicts, it is the women who will continue to suffer, so that is one reason why I guess as women we should really work for peace, because we know how painful wars can be to us and our daughters.
Wangari Maathai
#6. How much there is to suffer. When was time enough
to pay attention to our lighter emotions?
And still I recognize, better than most others
who will be resurrected, what blessedness is.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#7. We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
#8. We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.
Hans Rosling
#10. No wonder being a real Christian isn't popular. Who wants to suffer so they can find joy?" ~ Dianne Simmons
Michelle Sutton
#11. Thus those two beings, so exclusively and touchingly devoted, who had lived so long for each other alone, came to suffer side by side, each through the other, without ever speaking of the matter, without reproaches, each wearing a smile.
Victor Hugo
#12. There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you?
Margaret Mahy
#13. It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity.
Philip Massinger
#14. If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?
Thomas A Kempis
#15. Police are people too, and deserve the same respect due all living things. The point is not that they deserve to suffer or that we should bring them to justice. The point is that, in purely pragmatic terms, they must not be allowed to brutalize people or impose an unjust social order.
Anonymous
#16. The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without.
H.L. Mencken
#17. I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.
Brittany Maynard
#18. Sometimes friends have to suffer for their friends' happiness.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#19. Fear to do base unworthy things is valour; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too.
Walter Scott
#20. People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.
Isaac Asimov
#21. You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
Byron Katie
#23. Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
Jack Henry Abbott
#24. It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.
Benjamin Disraeli
#25. He who would love much has also much to suffer.
Jose Rizal
#26. Life is a suffering. We suffer because we exist. So enjoy the sufferings with love to make life worthwhile to suffer for.
Debasish Mridha
#27. I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.
Elie Wiesel
#28. We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.
Anne Frank
#29. I drink because I want to suffer profoundly!
Anonymous
#30. Who is willing to suffer for a Savior they won't even trouble themselves to learn about?
Aimee Byrd
#31. Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
John Locke
#32. If I had kids, my kids would hate me ... They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something in my life would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.
Oprah Winfrey
#33. The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.
Ludwig Von Mises
#34. Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.
Jose Marti
#35. Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
Jonathan Edwards
#36. There is silly are people. You must suffer, or cause others to suffer, before you will have respect of one kind or the other from them ... I will not stand to be looked at by anybody, especially when the looking is done with wrong thinking.
Richard Llewellyn
#37. This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
Euripides
#38. Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
C.S. Lewis
#39. I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.
Richard Cobden
#40. God loves greatly those whom he requires to suffer greatly.
Jennifer Worth
#41. Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer! This has been the cry of all cities to man ...
Alfred De Musset
#42. Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.
Thomas E. Mann
#43. It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
John Forbes Nash
#44. If you seek to avoid your fate or to delay suffering, it only condemns you to suffer it redoubled in another life.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#45. If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.
Primo Levi
#46. Don't take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing.
Miguel Ruiz
#47. The education of our hero, Edward Waverley, was of a nature somewhat desultory. In infancy his health suffered, or was supposed to suffer (which is quite the same thing), by the air of London.
Walter Scott
#48. She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery - boredom.
Patricia Briggs
#49. In the end we have one choice: to suffer well or suffer badly, to reach for or to reject that quality which is termed, equally, by both religious and secular, grace.
Anna Lyndsey
#50. We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.
Randall Robinson
#51. To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.
Bodhidharma
#52. While other creeds endeavor to get us out of the world and into heaven, in Christianity, heaven comes down and Christ comes into this world to get us. To suffer with us. We find favor - only because Christ feels pain.
Ann Voskamp
#53. There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer.
Anne Bronte
#54. It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
Viktor E. Frankl
#55. It requires great spirit, an exceptionally great spirit, to suffer the success of a close relative.
Sandor Marai
#56. During this same year of 1896 another desire began to grow in me. I began to feel an ever greater yearning to love Jesus Crucified very much, and at the same time a desire to suffer with him and to help him in his sufferings.
Gemma Galgani
#57. So you could not love me? That is as I hoped. For while I like you immensely, I do not love you and it would be tragic indeed for you to suffer twice from unrequited love, wouldn't it, dear?
Margaret Mitchell
#58. I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.
Leland Stanford
#59. Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues.
Edmund Burke
#60. The average human being is a perverse creature; and when he isn't that, he is a practical joker. The result to the other person concerned is about the same: that is, he is made to suffer.
Mark Twain
#61. It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.
Publilius Syrus
#62. Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it
Otto Von Bismarck
#63. Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why !
Bob Marley
#64. I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.
George Rogers Clark
#65. Whether it's social class status or your economic status, it is very evident that the top, if they get their way, will survive and be strong. They will lead those who are helpless, in many ways, to suffer.
Edwin Hodge
#66. If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.
Guy Finley
#67. I wasn't being noble. There was nothing noble about a thirst for revenge. It was about getting what I wanted, a chance to kill the king. And no one else would have to suffer because of me.
Elly Blake
#68. This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.
Charles Baudelaire
#69. Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena
Paulo Coelho
#70. Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.
Thomas Wolfe
#71. It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#72. Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger in one's soul?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#73. Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.
Laura Schlessinger
#74. Small-minded fools are everywhere and those with the courage to be who they are often have to suffer them.
Kristen Ashley
#75. I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides!
Charles Spurgeon
#76. You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#77. Truthfully, I just try to get as much rest and drink water like a fish every day. If I don't get enough rest, exercise and water to keep my body healthy, then the voice begins to suffer and it can't repair overnight from the previous day's work.
Roger Craig Smith
#78. I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans, Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race.
Condoleezza Rice
#79. A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.
Thomas Dreier
#80. Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.
Hirohito
#81. Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio ... each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction ... The vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.
Charles Darwin
#82. [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.
Vincent De Paul
#83. What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#85. The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty; the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.
Plato
#87. It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
#88. Mankind was not meant to suffer
bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.
David Lynch
#89. The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.
Louise Hay
#90. If one generation does not see how to absolutely solve things that are wrong today, another generation shall surely come to suffer from the same wrong things tomorrow!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#91. There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
E. M. Forster
#92. As long as ordinary citizens are as corrupt as the politicians in their daily lifestyle, the country will continue to suffer.
Sunday Adelaja
#93. It may be inevitable that mankind has to suffer so that it may gain experience to transcend and transform her collective consciousness.
Debasish Mridha
#94. It is easy to suffer for a cause or for a mission; this ennobles the heart of the person suffering. But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.
Paulo Coelho
#95. The less we expect to suffer, the more devastating suffering is to bear.
Kevin DeYoung
#96. By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.
Janet Flanner
#97. Some people think and say that we came here to suffer. Hmmmmmmm. I don't think so.
Art Hochberg
#98. Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
Teresa Of Avila
#99. There is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have fought and bled and died, like men, to make this country what it is. And if they have got to suffer and die, and be lynched, and tortured, and burned at the stake, I say they are at home.
Amanda Smith
#100. You can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
Elie Wiesel
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