There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured. — Saint Colette Copy Share Image
For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“When pain becomes a way of existence, we stop hoping for an end to the suffering. The death of hope is its… — Sunyi Dean Copy Share Image
Dearest brothers and sisters who are so persecuted, I know how much you suffer, I know that you are stripped of everything.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Suffering comes to ennoble man, to purge his thoughts of pride and superficiality, to expand his horizons. In sum, the purpose of… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a… — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
Use all your suffering for meditation, and soon you will come to know that the suffering disappears because the energy starts moving… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But what is it that makes a person want to stay here on this earth anyway, and go on suffering the most… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the… — Julian Beck Copy Share Image
I tend not to attempt to describe pain. I don't feel I can comprehend or re-create the personal suffering of others, so… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities … We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering,… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
“The more adversity we suffer in life, the more we savor the brief, rare periods of complete happiness and abandon. Those moments… — Juliana Buhring Copy Share Image
The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Pain is Pain. Broken is broken. Fear is the biggest disability of all. And will paralyze you more than you being in… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
“Agonies are one of my changes of garments, I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This is torment for me, Eva. I can’t focus. I can’t sleep. I lose my temper at the slightest irritants. I’m in… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“[..] it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Reason has always been obliterated by the sensation of profound solitude, perhaps that is why we replace the aching of isolation with… — Elyse Draper Copy Share Image
The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer… — Laozi Copy Share Image
You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
South Sudan is my home, and I am humbled to be in a position to help those suffering from lack of access… — Luol Deng Copy Share Image
The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I thought about all those people whose suffering had been erased, and I thought, 'Why can't they speak? Why can't I undo… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“There's beauty and darkness in everything: Sorrow in joy, life in death, throns on the roses. You can't escape pain and torment… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image