Best stones & suffering Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.”

Men Heart Has Beens Hands Lasts Suffering Felt Hours Animal Known Heard Dog Masters Creatures Stones Agony Remorse Caress Notorious Operators Vivisection Heart Of Stone

Author:Charles Darwin

“For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats.”

Men Years Littles I Can Suffering Turns Rooms Known Conditions Products Type Demand Disease Gains Stones Weight All Time Cups Plenty Appetite Candy Sufferers Anorexics Cocoa

Author:Victoria Wood

“Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.”

Eye Suffering Honor Stones Damage Flaws Impurity Precious Stones

Author:Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

“There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted to suicide, but I am glad I did not give way, for I have always felt that the last half of my life would somehow atone for the first half, and I still think it may ... It is not possible to live in this world without suffering unless one is a born stone. But it is also possible to have a great deal of happiness in spite of the suffering.”

Thinking World Way Giving Firsts May Has Beens Stills Hard Lasts Suffering Felt Born Deals Half This World Stones Suicide Glad Spite Dozen Tempted

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.”

World Way Country Age Suffering Powerful Situation Stones Usa Most Powerful Stone Age Powerful Countries

Author:Gore Vidal

“For adversities must of necessity come. They are part of the pattern of life's pilgrimage for every individual; and who can escape them? But I say unto thee, that for those who walk in Me, and for those who are encircled by the intercessory prayers of My children, I shall make of the suffering, yea, shall make of the trials a stepping stone to future blessing.”

Children Suffering Individual Prayer Walks Blessing Stones Adversity Patterns Trials Thee My Children Pilgrimage Stepping Stones Intercessory Prayer

Book:Come Away My Beloved

Source: Come Away My Beloved

“The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.”

Pain Spirit Suffering Conscience Stones Stronger Endure Glasses Steel Mortar American Spirit

Author:Olympia Snowe

“I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.”

Men World Giving Pain Form Suffering Hurt Perfect Stones Blow Block God Love Deaf Sculptors God Loves Us Chisels Suffering Pain

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there's something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know?”

Knows Believe Happens Suffering Song Stones Including Chicago Kidneys Funky Chicago Blues Kidney Stones

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.”

“I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through life and history: life from death, water from a stone, redemption from failure, connection from alienation. I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy.”

Believe Suffering I Believe Easy Christ Water Built All Things Stones Connections Patterns Redemption Narrative Alienation All Things New

Author:Shauna Niequist

“Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.”

Knows Heart Feelings Faces Suffering Darkness Divine My Heart Stones Sweat Anguish Wretched

Author:Albert Camus

“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”

Knows Men Real Reason Suffering Fear Emotion Half Blood Divine Flower Stones Wine Altars Homage

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all.”

Firsts Believe Said Soul Lasts Suffering Names I Believe Dark My Own One Thing Stones Vanity Spokes Bitterness Void Repent Oblivion Not Alone Monstrous Slander Alone In The Dark

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.”

Ifs Years Enough Suffering Minutes Rain Stones Angry Worn Memories Of A Geisha

Book:Memoirs Of A Geisha

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools.”

Source: Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan

“The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall.”

Source: The Island of Dr. Moreau

“Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”

Ifs Way Years Wells Mean Enough Suffering Turns Boys Minutes One Day Rain Stones Angry Mad Woods My Way Remembered Bites Worn Ponds

Author:Arthur Golden

“Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window, she could put an end to her suffering, and in the years to come the singers would write songs of her grief. Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters ... but then her courage left her, and she ran back to her bed, sobbing.”

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

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