“If people realized the great pains I go through to impose such delicious torment on him, they would be more punctilious.” — Andrew Cormier Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being?” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
“They'll say you are bad or perhaps you are mad or at least you should stay undercover. Your mind must be bare… — David Rovics Copy Share Image
“Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling, all pain, all depression of spirit, when you don’t know what… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Loving the right person at the wrong time is better than loving the wrong person who will make you suffer throughout your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do. — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of… — Pavel Peter Gojdic Copy Share Image
I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“It dawns on you one day... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
When you honor God, the storms may come, but you have a promise that others don’t have: When it’s all said and… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“Shukladhyan (internal state that renders the constant awareness of ‘I am pure Soul’) is the direct cause for moksha (liberation). Dharmadhyan (absence… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“He who avoids suffering today, in his test of life for what his quest is to be, will cry out tomorrow, a… — Mercedes Keyes Copy Share Image
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into… — Bill W Copy Share Image
What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and… — Buddhadasa Copy Share Image
“In this world, the pursuit of dreams leads to a life so painful and frustrating the mere thought of it is enough… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“..the Lord who had come to renew society, who lay like a coverlet, a snow blanket smitten only by the sun, for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I first started campaigning to become an MP in 2004, we were suffering as a party because our hierarchy and leadership… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
“If I weren't struggling, if I weren't keeled over in agony, if my muscles weren't screaming at the end of a long… — Rachel E. Carter Copy Share Image
It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
“When you lost something precious, the memories of it became a tormenting reminder of what you could never have again.” — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
You're going to have hardships, you're going to have a lot of good plays, you're going to have bad plays. — Brian Flores Copy Share Image
We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is… — Marieta Maglas Copy Share Image
“The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop. I knew that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
As progressives, we care about the well-being of others. We are soft-hearted and have aloha, respect, compassion for others, and we don't… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. — Jim McDermott Copy Share Image
