Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children. — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is… — John Sung Copy Share Image
There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward. — Mohammed Mahdi Akef Copy Share Image
I always knew that 'Growing Pains' was not going to go on forever. I remember thinking, 'I'm going to enjoy every moment… — Joanna Kerns Copy Share Image
Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it. — Jeanne Marie Laskas Copy Share Image
“Now you stride alone through the Paris crowds Busses in bellowing herds roll by Anguish clutches your throat As if you would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Who can save a child from a burning house without taking the risk of being hurt by the flames? Who can listen… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having… — John Green Copy Share Image
We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought walking away from you would make me happier. Turns out, walking away from you has caused me more pain than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
“Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator. — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.” — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
“Either he will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace then, and… — Mary W. Tileston Copy Share Image
And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. — William Blake Copy Share Image
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For many people, it [suffering] starts already at a very young age. So what don't schools teach our young people the way… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Well, if there was any real reward for complaining I hadn’t seen it so far, in a life filled with suffering and… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image