Suffers Quotes

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

Best, Alone, Laughter

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington

Bad, Lost, Away

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

Made, Injustice, Wretched

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
Michael Jackson

Through, Keep, Start

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Deepak Chopra

Heart, Others, Less

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

Happiness, Heart, Another

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
Corazon Aquino

Faith, Hope, Patience

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.
Princess Diana

Love, Age, Happy

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Love, Time, God

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love, Patience, Alone

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Before, Necessary

The ox suffers, the cart complains.
Victor Hugo

Complains, Ox, Cart

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
Victor Hugo

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Albert Schweitzer

History, Truth, Strong

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

Time, Pain, Passion

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne

Shall, Suffer, Fears

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

Love, Child, Whatever

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
George Santayana

Others, Making, Less

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler

Life, Family, Patient

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
William Congreve

Else, She, Conscience

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

Life, Human, Him

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
Hermann Hesse

Made, Whole, Spirit

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
Frederick William Robertson

Life, Men, Wise

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn

Truth, Often, Heat

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
William Penn

Truth, Nothing, Reason

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
Aeschylus

Him, Light, Trouble

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
Aeschylus

Good, Evil, Dead

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
Boyd Rice

Freedom, Society, Rights

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
Jean de la Bruyere

Life, Death, Live

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
Alfred Adler

Long, Understand, Individual

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