Quotes with suffer

  • There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
  • There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
  • The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
  • The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
  • Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
  • It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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  • Benjamin E. Mays I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
    As quoted in "Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography", Mays constantly recited to his students this anonymous poem.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Les Brown Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Edmund Burke He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • Euripides When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Arnold Bennett A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Khaled Hosseini A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Simone Weil A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Henry Wheeler Shaw About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
    Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • C. L. R. James After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Richard Bach An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Coleman Dowell Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.
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  • Basil Hume Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
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  • John Masefield Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • Thomas Szasz Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Francoise Sagan Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Bella Thorne Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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