Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering. — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The innocent should never have to suffer from the battles of others. (Valerius) I know, but it seems to always be the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The angels and the saints rejoice at the sight of men on earth who struggle, suffer and labor for the love of… — Rafael Arnaiz Baron Copy Share Image
People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you suffer [death] in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the… — Hassan al-Banna Copy Share Image
But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I had never been so close to death before. For a long time, as I lay there trying to clear my mind,… — Andre Brink Copy Share Image
“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Suffering will always be apart of the human condition. You can neglect it, you can shut it down. But when things get… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
When so many of our dreams had come true and yet I still saw that so many of my friends were in… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he… — Graham Taylor Copy Share Image
It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Children shouldn't have to sacrifice so that you can have the life you want. you make sacrifices so your children can have… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“-Do you recognize suffering? -I hope I do. -Injustice? -Again, I hope I would. -Then you are a political man.” — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
By healing the internal issues that we can heal as a people, our children don't have to suffer the same agony and… — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Compatible comes from the Latin "compati", meaning "to suffer with". If you are not willing to suffer with someone until death do… — Jason Evert Copy Share Image
“The world means to pull in the wrong direction. The world would have been just like heaven if it were not pulled… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The families of the killed and disappeared are entitled to the right to know what happened to their loved ones, and to… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“But now that I knew that suffering had been my happiness, I asked myself if I wasn't fleeing toward a God because… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have… — David Duke Copy Share Image
'Out of suffering have emerged, the strongest of souls, the most massive characters in life will forever be seared with SCARS!' — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits. — Van Jones Copy Share Image