Suffer Quotes

"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men."
-Plato

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"To perceive is to suffer."
-Aristotle

"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
-Aeschylus

"A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse."
-Sophocles

"Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them."
-Sir George Savile

"To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. "
-William Shakespeare

"Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange."
-William Shakespeare

"Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. "
-Theodore Roosevelt

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"He who fears will suffer, he already suffers from his fear."
-Michel de Montaigne

"Man suffers most from the suffering he fears, but never appears, therefore he suffers more then god meant him to suffer."
-Dutch Proverb

"Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply."
-Lucy Maud Montgomery

"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."
-G. K. Chesterton

"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."
-Ayn Rand

"I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven."
-Tupac Shakur

"The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
-General Douglas MacArthur

"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying."
-Bertrand Russell

"Taylor made us suffer too much in this country and helped to destroy Sierra Leone just for their diamonds. Now it is time for him to face justice for all the wicked things he did."
-Jerry Carter

"The humble suffer when the mighty disagree."
-Phaedrus

"So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world."
-Isodore Duncan

"Elton and I have spoken to Madonna plenty of times lately. She and Guy are close friends of ours. They need to concentrate on their careers if they want their relationship to work. ... But if they neglect that, their relationship will ultimately suffer."
-David Furnish

"POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown."
-Ambrose Bierce

"You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense Ken Keys, JR The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them."
-Harold Sherman

"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."
-Democritus

"Iran wants an Iraq that will not pose threats to it. Tehran doesn't want to suffer more from Iraq."
-Davoud Hermidas Bavand