But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Man, the bravest of animals, and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The agony of man is always longer than the fleeting moments of bliss. The trick is to reverse those two.” — Ben Midland Copy Share Image
The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Christianity is like a nail," he (Yemelian Yaroslavsky). "The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.” — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof. — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Discipline weights ounces--regret weighs… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Our worries always come from our weaknesses...Strong people can always afford to be gentle, only the weak are intent on "GIVING UP… — Napz Cherub Pellazo Copy Share Image
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“Everyone saw you lose it,' I whisper, doing my best to mentally block the pain like I have countless times before. It's… — Rebecca Yarros Copy Share Image
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters.… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I suffer from two phobias: 1) Phobia-Phobia, the fear that you're unable to get scared, and 2) Xylophataquieopiaphobia, the fear of not… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The beauty in the story is at one with suffering. That is also part of our upbringing - we don't think there… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, and that was enough. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
We must also remember some of the key lessons of Scripture. In our weakness he is strong. He can use suffering to… — John H. Walton Copy Share Image
I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Lord, I surrender my heart to you, I give you all my disappointments pain and suffering, which You alone can understand. Please… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“Was that the point of suffering: to understand, in some way, what you still had? To clarify it, to rip the stars… — Amber Sparks Copy Share Image
Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
There is a difference between having a vision and suffering from a hallucination. — Peter R. Scholtes Copy Share Image
