Sufferer Quotes

70 quotes by 56 authors

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her… — Joseph Hall
For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands… — Victoria Wood
The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer… — Christian Nestell Bovee
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. — William Hazlitt
I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know… — Padma Lakshmi
By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in… — Tom Wolfe
Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner… — Mark Twain
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake. — Hannah Arendt
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer. — Susan Sontag
The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he… — Viktor E. Frankl
Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and… — Jane Austen
There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer — James Clavell
[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and… — William Styron
Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,--… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.… — George Eliot
in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language… — Alexandre Dumas
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who… — Alexandre Dumas

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