There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
“It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
Diamond cannot be polished without friction, gold cannot be purified without fire. good people go through trials but don't suffer, with that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“Excessive attachment either to material goods, to other individuals, or even attachment to the concept of ‘I’ is the major source of… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences. — James Cook Copy Share Image
"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But their suffering doesn’t mitigate yours.” “Suffering doesn’t make me special. Sooner or later, life knocks everyone down. It’s how you deal… — Lori Wilde Copy Share Image
“By suffering, one is shown a path to awareness. Along that path is where we are truly born. When we choose to… — VD Copy Share Image
It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it’s presence, and then get busy as soon as… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa. — Kent Brantly Copy Share Image
In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because… — Danny Gokey Copy Share Image
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
If Obama's a tyrant, then he's pretty lame for a tyrant. How many tyrants do you know that really suffer because they… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“The lovers of the chase say that the hare feels more agony during the pursuit of the greyhounds, than when she is… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We… — Alvaro Uribe Copy Share Image
Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have to live, socially, in an almost unfinished society. Among the almost great, among the almost true, among the almost honest.… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
