“I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We suffer because we have no humility and we do not love our brother. From love of our brother comes the love… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
“For a man burning to venture into the unknown, this spell of enforced idleness was torment.” — Kevin Jackson Copy Share Image
Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. This is a delicate… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
“People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...” — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God… — Rod Steiger Copy Share Image
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface it seemed… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What good is music? None ... and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“He loves me so he hurts me To try and make me good. It doesn't work. I'm just too bad And don't… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I don't want to get hurt again and I don't want to lost you. I rather suffer than losing you — Chasty Grace Calderon Copy Share Image
“Grief is times bailiff sent to evict you from your old life. Its black warrant demands of you hard labour. There can… — Kerry Cue Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth. — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV) — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
“One who does evil is tormented in this life, Tormented in the next, Is tormented in both worlds. Here he is tormented,… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
“It would be futile to delude ourselves that at present, readers find every pathography unsavory. This attitude is excused with the reproach… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in… — David Wolpe Copy Share Image
“We are created precisely for this type of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
