But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering. — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people. — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and… — Khandi Alexander Copy Share Image
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We can't be useful to ourselves unless we're useful to others … Anyone concerned only by his own well-being will suffer eventually.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Tell me, Legolas, why did I come on this Quest? Little did I know where the chief peril lay! Truly Elrond spoke,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
“My mother's suffering grew into a symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful,… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“After deciding ‘Who am I?’ can one say ‘this is not mine’. A mistaken belief of ‘I’ (in the wrong place) has… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
I believe strongly that to whom much is given, much is required - we are a blessed nation - and that the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm a damaged man. I think we're all damaged in some ways. When I was younger I never thought I had… — Aaron Pedersen Copy Share Image
Anger causes anguish to the souls of all of those who experience the feeling as well as to those who are the… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
When we will think deeply, then we will realize that enjoyment is short lasting and reality of it is suffering. — Bhakti Charu Swami Copy Share Image
You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other… — Charlotte Ross Copy Share Image
“To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
“We, all of us, have been affected by war, hurricanes, drought, economic hardship. The result is a disease—an epidemic—called ‘hopelessness.’ It’s carried… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
“All the suffering there is in this world arises from wishing our self to be happy. All the happiness there is in… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
