War. . . is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.
That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with the sufferer, that we come either to conceive or to be affected by what he feels, may be demonstrated by many obvious observations, if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself. When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.
One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways, too. Hoplophobia [fear of guns], of course, is not simply an attitude but rather an aberration in which the sufferer clings to an idea which he himself knows to be unsound, such as the idea that inanimate instruments have a will of their own or that lawbreakers abide by the law.
By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world. ' So I started working for newspapers.
Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story. . . somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer. . . but nobody is the author.
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you - and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
I am the fool, and must be the sufferer, if it be not of God.
There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer
Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.
Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.
You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.
Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.
Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.
