How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Some part of me . . . had been waiting, since Kelp's death, for certainty that God . . . was either… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people of Milton, is but the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I… — Brian Friel Copy Share Image
The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We are going to file a suit to the Hague tribunal, which must investigate into these crimes against humanity, it is a… — Petro Poroshenko Copy Share Image
Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“All this talk about 'suffering humanity' is principally drivel based on the error of transferring one's own psychology to one's neighbour. The… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
If we want to create new rules of globalization, then we can't just think in terms of the nation state. The nation… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“As a fact, we cannot give suffering precedence in either our individual or collective lives. We have to get on with things… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going,… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All Alone In The Pain, I Shed No Tears Even In Rain, I Keep A Smile Like Smiling Mask Of Clown, In… — Alone Boy Copy Share Image
The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview.… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
The beauty in the story is at one with suffering. That is also part of our upbringing - we don't think there… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
“I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
If I am guilty of anything it is of believing what God said about children: 'Suffer little children to come unto me… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Suffering offers a path to awareness. Awareness allows us to be re-born. Being re-born, one is able to let go of suffering… — VD Copy Share Image
The gods we make in our own image are tribal gods. They tell you how very, very little you should tolerate outsiders,… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine getting hit with all that bad news at one time? What’s even more amazing is Job’s response. He responded… — Alan Robertson Copy Share Image
“Thus he began the payment of anguish for the fate that was laid on him; and in his fate Lúthien was caught,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The image of the tormented man is taken and reproduced in the dirtiest political ways by the institutions of the church, and… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
