Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
It is better to rage against the preventable suffering/because it leads to the suggestion of gorgeous alternatives/than to express our sadness. — Judith Malina Copy Share Image
When people speak to me of the torment of writing, I can think only of what it was like before I wrote:… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Like a tree accepts all seasons, accept your suffering with grace. Good days, like sunshine, will help you bloom and prosper. Hard… — M O'zee Copy Share Image
We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
[The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I know… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I come from a background of 40 pages a day. The other side of the coin is quality can suffer a bit… — Sherri Saum Copy Share Image
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
“Life on earth can never be fully understood. Life and all it holds is too big for humans to understand. There is… — Jan Krause Greene Copy Share Image
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist… — Nayely Saldana Copy Share Image
“In that Malazan Book of the Fallen, the historians will write of our suffering, and they will speak of it as the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I just want to say to anybody out there who suffers with chronic pain, I feel you. It takes over your life.… — Lara Spencer Copy Share Image
I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“And so we gain hope—not from the darkness of our suffering, not from pat answers in books, but from the God who… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“I do not yet understand whether my life is worth that. Whether it is worth all that pain and suffering. Whether it… — Hannah Clayton Copy Share Image
“She hadn’t understood loss until it had laid her to waste, and she feared what would become of her when she was… — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
“Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.” — K. Howard Joslin Copy Share Image
Womankind suffers from three delusions: marriage will reform a man, a rejected lover is heartbroken for life, and if the other women… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
We believe in peace. We strongly believe in freedom. Where we see suffering we will help. And rather than try to offset… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the… — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
Hardship And Misfortune May Be Unpleasant, But They Can Sometimes Have A Beneficial Effect On The Character, Especially When People Fail To… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
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