Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Does each of us need to suffer agony to understand how brutal our gridiron entertainment is? Surely, seeing is believing enough. So,… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities,… — William James Copy Share Image
Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“I should not act better than anybody, but sure as hell, NOBODY’S better than ME!” — Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin Copy Share Image
The sex was so passionate it bordered on violence. It was not vanilla. It was passion as suffering — Elise Valmorbida Copy Share Image
Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer. — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
No the outskirts of pain there is a city called gain and your shining is curved out of your sufferings as great… — Jesse Joseph Copy Share Image
Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image