“I’m not talking about the place filled with flames. I mean the hell the world is when cruelty doesn’t have a reason.… — Lisa Tucker Copy Share Image
In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering. — Sean Strub Copy Share Image
“I hadn’t understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy,why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“When you are around people who are really suffering, you get to experience some of their suffering and that can make you… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“Because of Jesus, I can never say about a person, “She must be suffering because of some sin she committed”; Jesus, who… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“our version of the same event is also likely to be a reflection upon our own situation and suffering rather than a… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Within an hour, I had gone from anguish at the thought of losing him in Scotland, to a strong desire to bed… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do you do this.. you kill me slowly bit by fucking bit.. you sit there as I die inside and you… — Megannn Copy Share Image
“We should not take lightly the horrible thoughts this place of death and destruction are meant to unveil. We are warned about… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
It hardly needs saying that such mutualistic communities will also be plagued by conflict. Conflict is at the very heart of life,… — Benjamin Nelson Copy Share Image
I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead… — Halle Berry 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
Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine." "My mom suffers from those a lot, too." "Being around you, I imagine… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
I never got that show - Les Miz. It's about the French guy, right, who steals a loaf of bread, and then… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live… — Wesley J. Smith Copy Share Image
I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
Even if you can't afford to buy a painting, you can experience it. You can go see the Mona Lisa and be… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
