As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land. — Joanna Southcott Copy Share Image
Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising.… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share Image
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Children of the middle years do not do their learning unaffected by attendant feelings of interest, boredom, success, failure, chagrin, joy, humiliation,… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image