A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.