Suffering Quotes
6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors
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Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do…
— Florence Nightingale
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All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of…
— Florence Nightingale
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The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all,…
— Florence Nightingale
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First there's the promise ring, then the engagement ring, then the wedding ring... soon after... comes Suffer...ring!
— Jay Leno
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I don't feel pressure because what everyone expects of me is what I expect of myself anyway. Everyone expects me to win this fight, I…
— Jake Matthews
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I'm going to give Vargas the chance to cash his last paycheck. I would like to say publicly that Fatty Vargas has always feared me.…
— Ricardo Mayorga
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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you…
— Mark Twain
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Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.
— Albert Einstein
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What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does…
— Albert Einstein
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Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won.…
— Michael Ventura
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Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.
— Lucy Grealy
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Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.
— Johann Baptist Metz
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But if so great a power is shown to have followed and to be still following the dispensation of His suffering, how great shall that…
— Justin Martyr
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The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to…
— Liu Xia
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If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well…
— Nesta Helen Webster
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So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence,…
— Stephen Batchelor
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There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn…
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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I didn't suffer for Jesus in prison. No! I was with Jesus and I experienced his very real presence, joy, and peace every day. It's…
— Brother Yun
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My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.
— Cheryl Rainfield
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I love my country enough to suffer its wrath
— Martin Sheen
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I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that…
— Bradley Cooper
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The one thing I find the least romantic is taking a horse and carriage ride. I can't express enough how unhappy these horses are and…
— Lea Michele
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You’re not weak. Your life is not defined by a letter grade, a dress size, your sexuality or anything else. You have every chance at…
— Chris Colfer
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Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.
— Mickey Rourke
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