“Night blanketed weary men who fell asleep where they dropped on the trampled prairie grass, while around them other prostrate men from… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
“Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entitlement, and relevant… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The real problem is that this devaluing of lament often betrays our failure to admit that our suffering is real and painful.… — Kelly M. Kapic Copy Share Image
One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“I looked at the woman crying over the doll and felt something else. I was sick of people acting against their own… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
You must never give up. You must remember that you have to take risks in order to achieve anything and sometimes you… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“retreat, with nothing to look forward to, nowhere to be, nothing to do, we are forced to confront the “wound of existence”… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Suffering was not a punishment from beyond or a malevolent infestation of the soul. Like the earth turning on its axis or… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any… — Bella Pollen Copy Share Image
It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our… — Dipa Ma Copy Share Image
What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
“I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Animals suffer both emotionally and physically, but they don't suffer metaphysically. That is, they don't suffer about suffering, don't get thrown into… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
“Do you know what it's like to want something so badly, to need it, to feel like you can't go on without… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
And, like poor Phaedra, we fall in love not with who we want to fall in love with, but with one who… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“After the first week, I found I could trick my troubled mind into much-needed sleep. My method was to ask a question… — Mark Canter Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
A Pitiful person who is afraid of taking risks, will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps he won't suffer the way people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered,” Katie says, “but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The whole Chinese system - not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for… — Kent Brantly Copy Share Image
Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation.… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
“If these three genders (veds) were not involved in the play of nature, then you would be able to remain separate in… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“You are the first woman—the only woman. Before you came I was content. Since we met, I have been in torment. You… — Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey 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 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
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
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
If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
