The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
He who thinks that macrobiotic living is merely a cure for physical ailments, however, can never really be helped. It is not… — George Ohsawa Copy Share Image
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions -… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert… — Basil Hume Copy Share Image
A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if… — Will Graham Copy Share Image
I've seen lots of murders, no murder is ever nice, and I just don't think the victim's family has an opportunity to… — John Cabello Copy Share Image
Do you know what will be left after you open that box? Even though a lot of disasters came out, because we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at… — Eileen Claussen Copy Share Image
“The Bible tells us that suffering is the product of a broken and fallen world. But as believers, we are blessed to… — Steve Gladen Copy Share Image
