From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion," Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.” — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“I want to be that Tantalus, unfed / forever, that my want's agony declare / that such as we want has nothing… — William Bronk Copy Share Image
Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Why do we write novels or make television about real things? It's the human condition and human suffering. — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If we take the time to look deeply, we see that understanding and compassion arise from suffering. Understanding is the understanding of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Ah Buddha, you boastful charlatan. You may have learned nothing after 6 years of suffering, but then what of 7 years? What… — Mark X Copy Share Image
“Whoever, through too great love, which is monstrous after all, dies of his misery, is born again to know neither love nor… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Behold in faith the sinless, spotless Lamb of God as having already borne that weight, as having suffered for those sins, as… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that now—suffering in the darkness that might just be the end of everything—is when we need knowledge the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the… — Frank X. Barron Copy Share Image
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“When you are at unease with ‘what is,’ you experience suffering; when you are at ease with ‘what is,’ you experience peace;… — Yogi Kanna Copy Share Image
People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God. — Samuel Clarke Copy Share Image
Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'd been suffering all of my life. I think comedians and artists, we do that. We know how to be the life… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Emptiness eatting down into my very soul, Silently screaming myself to sleep at night, Anguish exacting its excruciating toll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
My mind... It's who I am. I think I'd rather suffer any other injury in the world than have my mind tampered… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“We are made of flesh that bruises and bleeds, bones that break, and a mind that is susceptible to wild mood swings.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less.… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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