Suffering Quotes

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

To live is to suffer, but to survive, well that's to find meaning in the suffering.

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

You're lucky I took me a vow of non-violence, or you'd be suffering some pain right now.

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.