“By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?” — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green Copy Share Image
I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We must protect families, we must protect children, who have inalienable rights and should be loved, should be taken care of physically… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable.” — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“A gem, like you, is made beautiful by being polished. It's not an easy undertaking, but a stone that exists undisturbed among… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The hardship, the pain, the suffering of my brother and my son in prison, that's absolutely their experience, that's not mine. I… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Whenever you’ll open your eyes, you will find nothing but ugliness and misery all around you. Everything looks fine when you are… — Osho Copy Share Image
The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible… — Philip Carr-Gomm Copy Share Image
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might… — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
“There can be unexpected events, unreasonable waiting, unpredictable people and an uncertain future, yet nothing happens beyond the sovereign knowledge of an… — Royal Raj S Copy Share Image
Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars. — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow. — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing God provided me was not my physical healing. It was giving me a purpose and a passion to help… — Jordan Rubin Copy Share Image
Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you. — Catherine Martin Copy Share Image
A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that? — Rumi Copy Share Image
A true friend can see the suffering in your eyes, while everyone else can just see the smile on your face — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When we're suffering, we kind of have this notion that we kind of should stop living and we should just focus on… — Claire Wineland Copy Share Image
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Suffering and sacrificing crying when my family dying but I know there in the stars shining looking at me fighting igniting riot… — Jonathan Croft Copy Share Image
“Suffering has been greater than all other teachings. I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.” — Charles Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
“Our response to cruelty, suffering, and sorrow is to remind the world of the face of beauty, which can best restore a… — Anita Amirrezvani Copy Share Image
