They're [[harmaceuticals companies] just making a killing out of people's death. And they're benefiting by people's suffering. And I find that obscene.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
When you're sick, you're not thinking 24 hours a day about your suffering, about dying. You want to talk and laugh and… — Ken Watanabe Copy Share Image
The universe is chaotic and meaningless, and it's good to laugh about it. That's my stance on life, actually. Some people go… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The dial on the wheel of sorrow eventually points to each of us. At one time or another, everyone must experience sorrow.… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“People who have experienced war have learned to accept the trials and sufferings of life. Among many wise, older citizens in American… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“There are no shortcuts, in life or in love. This pain must be felt. The alternative is much worse. It's what makes… — Brothers Sisters Copy Share Image
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The only thing that people try to avoid is pain there's people who find pleasure out of making others suffer making fun… — James Melendez Copy Share Image
“Mr. Reese had told him that life, at its core, was a cruel burden because we had the knowledge that we were… — Willy Vlautin Copy Share Image
Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“for I saw them, while I was still struggling through the bushes, looking out of the back window,—and yet drove on indifferently?… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior… — David Platt Copy Share Image
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salvation... and that is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“The first ripple of unease hit him. He lifted his head for a moment, and his prey’s blood spurted out. He bent… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
“If the evil-doing of men moves you to indignation and overwhelming distress, even to a desire for vengeance on the evil-doers, shun… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“All human beings face the same fundamental problems of loving and of suffering, of striving toward human aspirations for themselves and their… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
“Acting was all about making yourself feel things-love,rage,euphoria,agony. She had to unlearn those things now. She had to teach herself not to… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“EPICURUS WROTE, “Empty is that philosopher’s argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Lord Jesus; I appreciate very much your sufferings for me and for the rest of humanity. I thank you for saving me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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