This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
Iris DeMent

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
Aristotle

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
Bianca Jagger

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Josh Billings

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
Thomas Fuller

To have a body is to suffer.
Bodhidharma

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
Henri Frederic Amiel

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
Louis Leakey

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Plato

Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
Larry David

Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.
Mikhail Saakashvili

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
Anatole France

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
Sidney Poitier

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
Barbara Jordan

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
Teilhard de Chardin

We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin