I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
The evil genius of terrorism is that that maximizes unfamiliarity, imaginability, suffering, scale of destruction, unfairness. It's really important to understand why… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“This man was her captor, yet he freed her soul; he’d caused her agony, yet also delivered peace; every touch was euphoric… — Lisa Eugene Copy Share Image
I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
The formal granting of independence created a more Manichean system of dependency and exploitation, since for those who practice it, it means… — Kwame Copy Share Image
I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't… — Joel Kinnaman 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
When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Maybe if people can't have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer.… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures. — Camille Claudel Copy Share Image
Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the… — John Dear Copy Share Image
“Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body reach that height of… — Yukio Mishima 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
“Man can recover from epic tragedy, he can live through immense hardship and endure the great injustices of life, but take away… — David Alejandro Fearnhead Copy Share Image
My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is… — Jackie Joyner-Kersee Copy Share Image
Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery. — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The Saviors atonement in the garden and on the cross is intimate as well as infinite. Infinite in that it spans the… — Merrill J. Bateman Copy Share Image
love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
North Korea cannot change because its people don't realize that there is an alternative to their suffering. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering! — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for… — Homer Copy Share Image
Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression. — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
“For our own past is covered by the currents of action, But the torment of others remains an experience Unqualified, unworn by… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to… — Hall Caine Copy Share Image
“One way to evaluate our practice is to see whether life is more and more OK with us. And of course it’s… — Charlotte J. Beck Copy Share Image
