“She promised new, tantalizing diversions. She whispered words of raw, intense pleasure the likes of which he’d never experienced. He was intrigued.… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
As long as we have all these conflicts, it is the women who will continue to suffer, so that is one reason… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion. The principal enemies of human happiness are inordinate desire—the fantasy of… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“I thought of my friends of the outer world, and of how they all would go on living their lives in total… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“At every new torment which is too hard to bear we feel yet another vein protrude, to unroll its sinuous and deadly… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
With the Special Ops Warrior Foundation's help, we put 266 kids through college last year. And that's what keeps me going. I'll… — David Goggins Copy Share Image
“Before, as I walked about, either on my hunting, or for viewing the country, the anguish of my soul at my condition… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I entrust this Twenty-second World Day of the Sick to the intercession of Mary. I ask her to help the sick to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I think poetry will survive and I don't think it will be the end of poetry. Our tremendous onslaught of mass media… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back,… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The Queen is frequently on her own, walking the dogs, riding her horses, playing patience, completing a jigsaw, sorting her photograph albums,… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
In our own storms in life the Savior is our solace and our sanctuary. If we seek peace, we must come unto… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“As an inmate of a concentration camp, Corrie Ten Boom heard a commotion, and saw a short distance away a prison guard… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
“There am I. I cannot leave. I have nothing to complain about. I do not suffer excessively, for I do not suffer… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
There is an understandable vindictiveness in people who come from Communist countries. They want to keep telling us that we were fools… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now),… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
“Why do deprivation, adversity, scarcity, and suffering often produce the best character qualities in us while prosperity, ease, and abundance often produce… — Bianca Olthoff Copy Share Image
“Come, my tragic sighs I beg your exquisite breathes on my skin, An agony of our past - so beautiful, My rebellious… — Carole Riquet Copy Share Image
“Tragedy seems to bring out all varieties of unexpected qualities in people. It was as if some folks got dunked in plastic,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you… — Edward Judson Copy Share Image
A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
