One of the few times I'm hit emotionally is when I listen to the tapes sadists make of torturing their victims. There… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When we hurt, God doesn't always give us lots of words; he gives us the Word; the Word made flesh who is… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer. — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years… — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion. — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
“He supposed he was one of those unfortunates born with a great capacity for suffering.... He opened his eyes a moment and… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
For Isildur would not surrender it to Elrond and Círdan who stood by. They counselled him to cast it into the fire… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word,… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
If I'm awake at 2 A.M., I'm either suffering from anxiety or doing something I will regret tomorrow. — Erin Foster Copy Share Image
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity,… — Josephus Copy Share Image
Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so… — Kadmi Cohen Copy Share Image
