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

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Herodotus

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
Sallust

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

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
Hesiod

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

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

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

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Aneurin Bevan

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
Henri Frederic Amiel

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them.
Alfred Sutro

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Vaclav Havel

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.
Frank Robinson

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

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

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

The ox suffers, the cart complains.
Victor Hugo

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.
Tim Bishop

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

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.
Qin Shi Huangdi