“ Voice-cry. Agony--the spoken “word” exploded, blown to bits by suffering and anger, demolishing discourse: this is how she has always been… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
What's going on in Syria is the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II. And we are punishing those who are suffering… — Daniel Benjamin Copy Share Image
When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Pain is the reaction of the body, and as long as you have the body, some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are not a voice for the voiceless. The truth is that there is a lot of noise out there drowning out… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access.… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“... the room rose in a rhythmic swaying motion, eyes ablaze or closed in tight serenity, afraid to let go of the… — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
If you don’t learn how to cry, you cannot be a good Christian. When they posed this question to us – why… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate… — Nikolai Bukharin Copy Share Image
I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When you saw people suffering... A man who fight for freedom, was tortured and jailed. A beggar asking for food, and was… — Janet Reolope Copy Share Image
And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem… — Fernando de Rojas Copy Share Image
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status.… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
“When we respond to our pain and suffering with love, understanding, and acceptance—for ourselves, as well as others— over time, we can… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else’s suffering flaring in your own nerves.… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“For the first time I noticed – as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
I have this great fear of people - not when I'm on the runway, but backstage. In a room full of people,… — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Suffering should not define you as a woman! And just because you’re a man it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t affect you!… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don't recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It's… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?... Mathematics is, in my opinion,… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain:… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
“Even if we have time, we don't come home to ourselves. We try to keep ourselves constantly entertained - watching television, socialising,… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Where are you, Adam? According to the book of Genesis, Adam went into hiding after the fall. By trying to be more… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
