Sufferings Quotes

When a makeup is as painful as that which I wore as Blizzard in The Penalty (1920/I), when I had my legs strapped up and couldn`t bear it that way more than 20 minutes at a time - when I have to be a cripple, as in The Miracle Man (1919) or have to keep a certain attitude of body, as I did in Shadows (1922/I), it sometimes takes a good deal of imagination to forget your physical sufferings. Yet, at that, the subconscious mind has a marvelous way of making you keep the right attitudes and make the right gestures when you are actually acting.

I would never think of doing a movie for children if I did not have any. A lot of things in the film I know about. I relate to all the sufferings much more now that I have kids. I see it from the outside now. And before, I didn`t. Children have this capacity for resistance, and they accept things as they are, maybe because they have no other reference. They are somehow more flexible; they adapt much faster than adults.

It`s not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

No, if we come in the spirit and power of our Master, in this, as in every other part of his sufferings, we must follow his steps.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

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.

Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ``Blessed are they that mourn.``

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

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.