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.
George Clooney

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
Alexis de Tocqueville

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
Aesop

The man who does ill must suffer ill.
Aeschylus

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
Henry George

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.
Kathleen Turner

The people who actually do things always suffer the slings and arrows of those who don't.
Craig Bruce

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
Tertullian

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
Ivor Novello

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Plato

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
Irwin Shaw

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur

The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble.
Nguyen Cao Ky

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
Lawrence Durrell