“Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. Suffering takes us out of our rational self-control and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The inconvenience and the suffering of any children or any family members pales in comparison to the suffering and oppression that goes… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“Brenna is not suffering. She has periods of hurt and of discomfort, and she has endured intense pain during hospitalizations and surgeries.… — Courtney Westlake Copy Share Image
See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“What anguish! Cincinnatus, what anguish! What stone anguish, Cincinnatus—the merciless bong of the clock, and the obese spider, and the yellow walls,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches… — Rose of Lima Copy Share Image
Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors.… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Live fully present in this world with your heart attuned to God’s heart, and you will be torn by the sight of… — Maria Grace Dateno Copy Share Image
I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can't see it in a monetary-based… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love… — George Wallace Copy Share Image
Sometimes Ronan thought Adam was so used to the right way being painful that he doubted any path that didn’t come with… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Hardship and turmoil, I think, is the turning point for lots of young males, the moment when they say, 'Oh, so this… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There's a deliciousness to my agony that wasn't there before- I know he's not going away. I know it's real.” — R. A. Nelson Copy Share Image
It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
Look carefully, 99 percent face fear, anguish, pain, separation and tragedy. Who could imagine this world? — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
There are thousands of people suffering from ulcerative colitis, from young kids to adults. It's a very difficult illness to deal with. — Darren Fletcher Copy Share Image
It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering; there is some good or positive in this experience.” — Louis Hoffman Copy Share Image
How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the… — Paul Sears Copy Share Image
Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted… — Charan Singh Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they… — Eric Braeden Copy Share Image
It's one thing to see the suffering and dying on the television screen and quite another to be there and experience it.… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
