Quotes tagged ‘Suffering’

“We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.”

— George Lucas, C-3PO, Anthony Daniels, imdb.com

“There are moments that the words don’t reach. There is suffering too terrible to name.”

— Renée Elise Goldsberry, open.spotify.com

“Your sins are terrible. It is just that you suffer. Your life could be redeemed, but I know you don't believe that. You will not change.”

— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Cardinal Lamberto, Raf Vallone, imdb.com

“Dionne: Dude, what’s wrong. You suffering from buyers remorse or something? Cher: God, no! Nothing like that.”

— Amy Heckerling, Cher Horowitz, Alicia Silverstone, imdb.com

“This is the rule I always give myself: that nothing new can come from a situation that involves being free or that doesn’t involve suffering.”

— Rei Kawakubo, system-magazine.com

“Duchess Cecily: You should understand. He was barely eleven years old when his father died at the She-Devil's hand. Have you any idea? Jacquetta: Indeed we do. I lost my own husband and my son in a similarly brutal and senseless manner. Duchess Cecily: Are we to measure our pain against each other?…”

— Lisa McGee, Duchess Cecily, Caroline Goodall, imdb.com

“Oh, you think the black man has a monopoly on suffering? You have no clue what black women go through, probably ‘cause you can’t get close to one, ‘cause you’re fucking whack. We deal with the same shit society heaps on you, then turn around and deal with the shit you heap on us.”

— Leann Bowen, Joelle Brooks, Ashley Blaine Featherson, imdb.com

“Look at you. You're in so much pain. Why are you putting yourself through all this?”

— Gennifer Hutchison, Chuck McGill, Michael McKean, imdb.com

“Shit happens.”

— Nichole Beattie, Rick Grimes, Andrew Lincoln, imdb.com

“It wasn't always easy, but suffering is something I've had to accept.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Life is not a walk across an open field.”

— Michael Hirst, Siggy Haraldson, Jessalyn Gilsig, imdb.com

“Just a quick glance and I knew all was lost. I saw in real life...now a on going mind view, the black and white, were now my new boss. I saw my life as I know quickly fade away. I saw my love ones, in mind and thoughts that I would never be able to touch, hold, communicate closely with and kiss with…”

— Dennis Rader, foxnews.com

“That is how I see mankind in its suffering; that is how I see the suffering people of Europe, bleeding to death on deserted battlefields after conflicts which to a great extent were not their own.”

— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org

“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“To grow we all need to suffer.”

— Dan Dietz, Gina Atwater, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com

“The Bible teaches that woman brought sin and death into the world, that she precipitated the fall of the race, that she was arraigned before the judgment seat of Heaven, tried, condemned and sentenced. Marriage for her was to be a condition of bondage, maternity a period of suffering and anguish, an…”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

“You think you are the greatest sufferer in the world? Do you know that men are sometimes banished for life? Do you know that men sometimes lose all their yams and even their children? I had six wives once. I have none now except that young girl who knows not her right from her left. Do you know how…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“When your Excellency Considers my Sufferings, and the Cruel Situation I am in, your Own Humanity and feelings as a Soldier, will render every thing I can say farther on the Subject unnecessary.”

— Benedict Arnold, founders.archives.gov

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

“Men, it's been a long war, it's been a tough war. You've fought bravely, proudly for your country. You're a special group. You've found in one another a bond that exists only in combat, among brothers. You've shared foxholes, held each other in dire moments. You've seen death and suffered together.…”

— Erik Jendresen, Erik Bork, Joseph Liebgott, Ross McCall, imdb.com