Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What…

“Baghra," Nikolai said, "how are you this evening?" "Still old and blind," she snarled. "And charming," Nikolai drawled. "Never forget charming." "Whelp." "Hag." "What…

— Leigh Bardugo

“Alina, I'll be back to fetch you for dinner, but should you grow restless, do feel free to run screaming from the room or…

— Leigh Bardugo

“And you," she spat in Nikolai's direction. "Go somewhere you're wanted." "That's hardly limiting," he said.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Wretched boy.” “You like him,” I said in disbelief. Baghra scowled. “Greedy. Arrogant. Takes too many risks.” “You almost sound concerned.” “You like him…

— Leigh Bardugo

“We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.”

— Bill Maher

“But I guess if I’m thinking about my future, it matters less if it’s a man or a woman and more how they make…

— Riley Hart

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

— Lin Yutang

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

— Samuel Johnson

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

— Bette Davis

All that matters to me is the man in front of me right now. (Tory) I’m not a man, Soteria. (Acheron) I know. But…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Where there is doubt (shanka), there is misery. The moment one begins to doubt the knowledge that, 'I am Chandubhai,' misery arises. Once one…

— Dada Bhagwan

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.…

— Jim Morrison

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul…

— L. Neil Smith