Quotes by Suffering The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy. Marcel Proust auntsufferingtwo To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state. Marcel Proust statessufferingneeds I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity. Margaret Cho appreciateimportantsuffering There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer. Marcel Proust truthsufferingworld An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way. Mahatma Gandhi leadersufferingway I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. Margaret Atwood lunatic-asylumsmachinessuffering Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom. Margaret Fuller ransomsufferingprayer There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let it creep back into things from inside you? Margaret Mahy sufferingtwopeople We must submit to the Will of God and kiss the hand that strikes us, for we know it is better to suffer in this life than in the next, since one moment of suffering willingly accepted for the love God, is worth an eternity of happiness. Margaret Mary Alacoque kissingsufferinghands How can we have the courage to wish to live, how can we make a movement to preserve ourselves from death, in a world where love is provoked by a lie and consists solely in the need of having our sufferings appeased by whatever being has made us suffer? Marcel Proust sufferinglove-islying Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses. Margaret Fuller madsufferingclass The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering. Margaret Mary Alacoque crossessufferingmother Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable. Marcel Proust sufferingspiritwould-be Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. Margaret of Valois credulitydisappointmentsuffering We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow. Marcel Proust sufferinglove-isthinking Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults. Marcus Tullius Cicero annoyedsufferingmen Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted. Marcus Tullius Cicero takensufferingmen People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I've endured. Margaret Cho sufferinglongpeople Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't. Malcolm X inferiorityleadersuffering Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable. Marcel Proust sufferingmindmoving«126127128129130131132133134135136»
