There is a pleasure that is born of pain. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You're lucky I took me a vow of non-violence, or you'd be suffering some pain right now. — Mike Fink Copy Share Image
“A man who does not understand the benefit of suffering does not live a clever and true life.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box. — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
“Only through pain will you have beauty. Only through suffering will you find peace. I wrap, I bind, but you will have… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
We are not naturally intelligent, or happy. In fact, every day it is harder to remain intelligent. It seems often that people… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
