As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own… — Henry Spira Copy Share Image
“Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
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
