A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches. Without knowing it, he suffers from the mental darkness that keeps him from screaming that he himself is the girl who forgets his presence while shuddering in his arms.
Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.
Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.
A man can laugh while he suffers.
Everybody contributes something to the system, and everybody suffers from the system.
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.
The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.
What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion
Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.
The ox suffers, the cart complains.
Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.