What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer… — Gertrude Diamant Copy Share Image
A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“The fact that Jesus came to earth where he suffered and died does not remove pain from our lives. But it does… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
“Brother,you who have the light, tell me mine. I am like a blind man. I go without direction and fumble along. I… — Rubén Darío Copy Share Image
My reporting in Africa wouldn't be political per se, but it's certainly the point of my reporting - and of a lot… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything. — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Ah Buddha, you boastful charlatan. You may have learned nothing after 6 years of suffering, but then what of 7 years? What… — Mark X Copy Share Image
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why not admit that it is not our paramount duty to weep with all those who are weeping, to suffer with all… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Relief is a great feeling.It's the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“The cause of our suffering is not what we do, but the way we perceive.” — Rodney Smith Copy Share Image
The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality.… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
We are always in awe of what the donors have done in terms of providing of themselves to the recipients. It really… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“We are born to suffer, that our suffering might make us strong” — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Everybody has got 5.5 liters of blood. I am just a human being. For me everybody the same. There are thousands and… — Narayanan Krishnan Copy Share Image
![“Ah Buddha, you boastful charlatan. You may have learned nothing after 6 years of suffering, but then what of 7 years? What of 17? What might you have learned from a lifetime of pain? [...] From what I can tell, the wisest man in all these scriptures was the first person Buddha ever tried to teach…” quote by Mark X](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e70/mark-x-50046_ajivika_ah-buddha-you-boastful-charlatan-you-may_3203888.jpg)
