Suffering Quotes - Page 169

Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.

Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.

I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.

To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

I'm the first secretary of defense that's had to deal with sequestration. I've prepared two budgets that deal with sequestration. And you bring the chiefs together, the leadership of this enterprise together, to work through, how do we then take these cuts? Where do we apply those cuts? Readiness is the first thing that suffers.

I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

The Bible itself does not seem too bothered by the idea that talking of God suffering might in any way diminish God, or detract from his perfection. On the contrary, the Bible seems to revel in the richness of describing God in ways that reflect our own human realities.

You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.

God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.

It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.

The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change. Popularities come and go. The tragedy of it is that somebody like Robin Williams should suffer from that, and be driven to commit suicide. If ever there was an untimely, unfair death, it was him.

I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic Oath. I want to see people use safe, practical medicines.

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

Whether I affect one person or an entire family, or even a group of people, I feel like I have resources and education and ability and skills that some people may not be fortunate enough to acquire. But by sharing and inquiring, being a listener, and being interested in the stories of other people and their lives, I can also pull things out and say "What can I do for them? What can I share with them that may alleviate some of their suffering?"

They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.

It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.