A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence. — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering! — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When our TV screens are filled with heartbreaking images of suffering, we have to dig deep inside ourselves in order to keep… — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
The agony and overwhelming sadness of being alone... Where nights seem to last forever and tears just keep streaming down my face. — Cuts And Scars Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Envy is a mistake that just keeps on giving. Obviously we suffer a little when some misfortune befalls us, but envy requires… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, when it is your lot to have to endure something that is (or seems to you) worse than the ordinary lot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It exists,” Shevek said, spreading out his hands. “It’s real. I can call it a misunderstanding, but I can’t pretend that it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it… — Rumi Copy Share Image
But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Never cry for the ones who dont deserve your tears coz the ones that dont deserve them will just hurt you more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly. — Stefan Zweig 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
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. — Lucretius 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
“Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease. — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn’t learn… — Julianne MacLean Copy Share Image
I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it! — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
“one can grow so well accustomed as to smile at them, to take the tormentor’s side with a. happy determination which deludes… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. —Antonio Porchia” — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Our endurance and suffering made us stronger than they can imagine. We became so strong that it takes only one of our… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
“The art of letting go, if mastered, may save us from our own suffering.” Excerpt From: Sarah Voldeng. “The Art of an… — Sarah Voldeng Copy Share Image
There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
