We Suffer Quotes
161 quotes by 138 authors
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The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
— Aesop
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no…
— Emile M. Cioran
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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own…
— Mario Puzo
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Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
— Oswald Chambers
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We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.
— Thomas a Kempis
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We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the…
— Edward George, Baron George
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
— Seneca the Elder
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Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.
— George Robinson
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When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one,…
— Frederick Buechner
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Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.…
— Samuel Adams
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The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is…
— Byron Katie
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We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.
— H. L. Mencken
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Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught…
— Hermann Hesse
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We suffer one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You've got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline…
— Jim Rohn
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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.
— Robert McKee
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If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more,…
— Shakti Gawain
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