But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Do not grieve over temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because… — Claude Vorilhon Copy Share Image
The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
“life itself is a form of suffering. The rich suffer because of their riches. The poor suffer because of their poverty. People… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Just as certain seeds require a forest fire to crack open their shells, crisis burns away our limited self-concepts, allowing our deeper… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The end of suffering happens in this very moment, whether you're watching a terrorist attack or doing the dishes. And compassion begins… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“Really, we are not creatures of the world; we are the source of all creation. Being cut off from this knowing is… — Tess Hughes Copy Share Image
“Let me have a faithful account of all that concerns you; I would know everything, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“you are good but you are too emotional the way to whip life is to quietly frame the agony,study it and put… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. NOTHINGS OTHERS DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU. WHAT OTHERS SAY AND DO IS A PROJECTION OF THEIR OWN… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
I want to listen to people's stories and find strength in them. There is so much human-caused pain and suffering in the… — Clemantine Wamariya Copy Share Image
At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process.… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Our hours of adoration will be special hours of reparation for sins, and intercession for the needs of the whole world, exposing… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Jesus has many who love the kingdom of God, but few who bear a cross. He has many who desire His comfort,… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
