Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
With the passing of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, who had just entered his 100th year, the world has lost one of the… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have tremendous respect for fighters and I always tell people that boxing in movies is one thing but when you get… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“he expected after the pleasant days GOD had given him, he should have his turn of pain and suffering; but that he… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Everything passes away-suffering,pain, blood, hunger,pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
How to forgive a murderer? First, by differentiating his sufferings from his exploitation of death to ease them. For his sufferings -… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
“She did not look her best: so thin, so large-nosed, with that pink-and-white checked duster tied round her head. She felt her… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper. Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“It is good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe,… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
He is not far off; He is there, very close. He is looking at us, and He is begging this sorrow, this… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love,… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
I would also hope that readers receive a larger understanding, or a different understanding, of what it means to be human, than… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early,… — Keith Brantly Copy Share Image
Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Within the framework of the Buddhist Path, reflecting on suffering has tremendous importance because -realizing the nature of suffering, you will develop… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“In a case like this, the thing is (in my own opinion) to draw back upon oneself, and not to strive after… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“There’s often a reason why people and dogs bite. It’s about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the… — Jennifer Skiff Copy Share Image
He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender… — John Newton Copy Share Image
At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Finally, it is wrong to say that "nothing" is more basic to the identity of the church than suffering. Nothing is more… — Keith A. Mathison Copy Share Image
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“Do I have to do everything myself?" The cry was a soul-freezing mixture of rage and torment. "Ain’t there no one to… — Walter Kaylin Copy Share Image
Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
“Regurgitating stories of suffering seems to be part of the process to access any kind of support, whether it be a bursary,… — Pear Nuallak Copy Share Image
