179 quotes found
“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”
“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.”
“We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
“Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars. ”
“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”
“If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.”
“A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.”
“Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.”
“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”
“Women have a predestination to suffering.”
“Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.”
“History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.”
“Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to sel...”
“A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.”
“The reward of suffering is experience.”
“What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between ...”
“Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.”
“All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.”
