That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I’d be suffering right now because it’s out of your hands what happens to you with age. – Bo Derek
Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences. – Albert Bandura
I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. – Christopher Hitchens
But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven’t read them. – Alexander McCall Smith
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. – Benjamin Disraeli
If nothing else, there’s comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. – Chuck Palahniuk
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. – Andre Malraux
It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too – to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS. – Bruce Davison
I think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever. – Bear Grylls
It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible – the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes. – Alice Morse Earle
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise – that there are causes worth suffering and dying for. – Adam Michnik
A lot of compelling stories in the world aren’t being told, and the fact that people don’t know about them compounds the suffering. – Anderson Cooper
When we’re dealing with the people in our family – no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs – we give from the deepest parts of ourselves. – Anne Lamott
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. – Clara Barton
For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help. – The Bible Psalm 22:24
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. – Armistead Maupin
The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting – it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering. – Alveda King
Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering. – Aleksander Kwasniewski
‘Suffering should not make us bitter people,’ my mother once said, ‘it should make us better comforters.’ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind. – Billy Graham
I read God’s word when I am not suffering. And then I don’t have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting. – Anne Graham Lotz
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence. – Coretta Scott King
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money. – Alejandro Jodorowsky
Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue. – Anna Maria Chavez