La mort ne fait jamais mal. La mort est douce† Ce qui fait souffrir avec certains poisons, certaines blessures maladroites, c'est la vie. C'est le reste de vie. Il faut se confier franchement a'   la mort comme une amie. Death never hurts. Death is sweet† Life is what makes us suffer with its poisons and awkward injuries. That's what remains of life.We must confide freely in death as we would in a friend.

-Anouilh,Jean
Eurydice, act1.

A lui la foi, a'   elle le doute, a'   elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
La Recherche de l'absolu.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne orhigh heels, and onemust be prepared to suffer for it.

-Bennett, (Enoch) Arnold
  The Title, act1.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans 8:15^17.

Ma bouche sera la bouche des malheurs qui n'ont point de bouche, ma voix, la liberte¤   de celles qui s'affaissent au cachot du de¤  sespoir. My voice will be the voice of those who suffer and have no voice. My voice, the freedom of those weakened in the dungeon of despair.

-Ce¤  saire, Aime¤   Fernand
  Cahier d'un retour au pays natal.

I have a little black book with two players in it, and if Iget a chanceto dothem Iwill.Iwill makethemsuffer before I pack this game in. If I can kick them four years over the touch-line, I will.

-Charlton,Jack (John)
  Remark to reporters, which led to severe trouble with the soccer authorities. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough.

-Cicero full name MarcusTullius Cicero
  In the Saturday Review, Fall issue. BC Roman orator and statesman, exiled after his unconstitutional executionof the Catiline conspirators. Although recalledby the people (57 BC) he lost the respect of both Caesar andPompey by his  vacillations.  He  wrote  most  of  his  major  works  on  rhetoric and  philosophy  in  retirement  in  Rome.  His  speeches  against Mark  Antony  after  Caesar's  death  (The Philippics)  cost  him  his life.

Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.416.

Also say to them, that they suffre hym this day to wynne his spurres, for if god be pleased, I well this journey be his, and the honoure thereof. 300

-Edward III
  Of his16-year-old son, Edward the Black Prince. Quoted in the Chronicle of Froissart (translated by Sir  John Bourchier, Lord Berners,1523^5), ch.130.

Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doingourbesttore-establishpeaceand civil order inthe Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continuetosuffer through no fault oftheirown.If wesucceed,ourmilitarysuccesswill have achieved its true objective.

-Elizabeth II
  Commenting on the aftermath of the Gulf  War in the first address by a British monarch to Congress,16 May.

   Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

-Hirohito
  Declaration,15  Aug. Quoted in Hugh Cortazzi  The Japanese Achievement (1990).

  If a man in truth will the Good then he must be willing to suffer for the Good.

-Kierkegaard, So«  ren Aabye
  Purity Of Heart Is To Will One Thing (translated by D Steere, 1938).

   Pluto" t  souffrir que mourir, C'est la devise des hommes. It is better to suffer than to die. That is the motto of mankind.

-La Fontaine,Jean de
  Fables, pt.1, no.16,'La mort et le bu"   cheron'.

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

-Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
  Letter to Catherine Carswell,16  Apr.

The humble people of Cambodia are the most wonderful in the world.Their great misfortune is that theyalwayshaveterrible leaders who makethemsuffer.I am not sure I was much better myself, but perhaps I was the least bad.

-Sihanouk, Prince Norodom
  In an interview withWilliam Shawcross, author of Sideshow (1979).

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

-Szasz,Thomas Stephen
  The Second Sin.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

-Trollope, Anthony
  The Bertrams, ch.27.

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retir'd; Bid her come forth, Suffer her self to be desir'd, And not blush to be admir'd.

-Waller, Edmund
  'Go, lovely rose'.

At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

-Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)
  TheWar of theWorlds, bk.1, ch.7.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.

-Wesley, Charles
  'GentleJesus', collected in Hymns and Sacred Poems.