Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
You keep your eyes closed to block out the hardships, the pain, the unwanted; but in that, the true beauty of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The horror of seeing the U.S. Capitol, one of the pillars of our democracy, attacked on Jan. 6 was a brutal example… — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change… — Susan George Copy Share Image
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Oh, cruel ennui! It must be by mistake that those who have invented the torments of hell have forgotten to ascribe thee… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“I found myself all at once on the brink of panic. This, I suddenly felt, was going too far. Too far, even… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
There is no physical pain, no spiritual wound, no anguish of soul or heartache, no infirmity or weakness you or I ever… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
We have a dysfunctional dream of the planet, and humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear. The symptoms of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The sheer anguish in her heart at being let down once again swam like a sea of sludge in her veins. She” — Catherine Bybee Copy Share Image
Lately, I haph startet painting my torso in pretty, motley hews. I sit in phront oph the mirror in the sleepy-room. I… — Mark Dunn Copy Share Image
"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
As long as space abides and as long as the world abides, so long may I abide, destroying the sufferings of the… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
“Never consider another to be the cause of your suffering. Suffering is always the results of one’s own deeds or faults.” — SWAMI SHARNANAND JI Copy Share Image
Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes. — William Styron Copy Share Image
Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful. — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
By any objective standard, Joaquin Guzman Loera is an evil man who has caused untold suffering for others. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
