Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
The movie industry is very competitive, and if you're like me and you suffer from your own insecurities about whether or not you're any good, that can be troubling.
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.
