Sufferer Quotes
70 quotes by 56 authors
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
— Aeschylus
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural…
— Cesare Pavese
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War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
— Thomas Jefferson
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of…
— Aldous Huxley
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One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.…
— Simone Weil
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A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
— Joseph Addison
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways, too. Hoplophobia [fear…
— Jeff Cooper
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I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
— Mark Twain
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred…
— John Angell James
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The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.
— Timothy Keller
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Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow  him…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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On 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal…
— Sean Paul
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I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me…
— Rowan Williams
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Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.
— Thomas Keneally
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What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
— Samuel Richardson
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It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car…
— Radhanath Swami
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...we cannot stand idly by now, as the Nation is urged to embark on an ill-conceived adventure in government medicine, the end of which no…
— Durward Gorham Hall
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