logo

Quotes About Suffering

For most people, my suffering is enjoyable. I suffer in a funny way.
~ Sal Vulcano
I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.
~ Catherine Deneuve
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
~ Walter Savage Landor
I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.
~ Wendie Malick
To have a body is to suffer.
~ Bodhidharma
When I meet children and people who suffer, when they mention any kind of pain, emotional pain, physical pain, I know what they need, because it's the same thing I need. They need healing, they need peace, they need joy, they need hope.
~ Phan Thi Kim Phuc
Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.
~ Michael J. Knowles
An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.
~ Joe Wright
I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.
~ Rivers Cuomo
I decided to run for office because I've seen that elected officials would rather let us suffer than put in the work to actually fight for us.
~ Cori Bush
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
~ Mary Antin
That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
~ Phaedrus
Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
~ John Florio
I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.
~ Rebecca Miller
I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don't care what anyone says.
~ Eric Braeden
Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
~ Bianca Jagger
We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
~ Pamela Stephenson
Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
~ Ralph Merkle
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
Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.
~ David Millar
I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
~ Patricia Cornwell
I suffer from overheating quite easily.
~ Guy Pearce