“Pity . . . is more properly bestowed in cases of involuntary suffering than of crime and offences committed voluntarily and with malice aforethought.” — Antiphon Copy Share Image
l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
If man wishes to put an end to suffering,he must eradicate his own selfishness and cultivate contentment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking… — John Green Copy Share Image
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“But it's no good preaching to a grief-stricken soul. And it can actually cause much harm. God is long-suffering in His patience,… — Siri Mitchell Copy Share Image
I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“Austerity means to eliminate the comforts and cushions in your life that you have learned to snuggle into and lose wakefulness. Take… — David Deida Copy Share Image
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“A cold winter night. I'm warm enough, yet I'm alone. And I realize that I'll 'have' to get used to existing quite… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Warm, buttery sunlight through the leaves, setting them glowing like rubies and citrines. The damp, earthen scent of rotting things beneath the… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
That painful situation of life when the one you love also love you but you don't want him/her to stay with you… — Rkthan Arora Copy Share Image
The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
God doesn't author hardship but uses it to strengthen us for greater conquests. He never leads us into a storm that He… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
You do not suffer from your beliefs. You suffer from your disbeliefs. If you have no hope inside of you, it's not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“God visits suffering on innocent people of scope and scale that would even embarrass the most ambitious psychopath” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence. — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
“Try to be a rainbow in someones cloud There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
They say a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; only… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It's part of the human experience, and in a way… — Juliette Fay Copy Share Image
But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
