Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage.… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
When I am dancing, it feels like my prayer. It's like an offering. I offer my head back to the dance, I… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Thanks for the world you have given me! Of friends to have, for friends to be Places to go, laughter to share… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Being a figurehead for those with family members in prison is somewhat new for me. Something I've discovered since my father's incarceration… — Kambri Crews Copy Share Image
“An action from a confused and suffering being in the past doesn't represent what that being is forever; it is only an… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Men sometimes confess they love war because it puts them in touch with the experience of being alive. In going to the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The greatest miracle is to be alive. We can put an end to our suffering just by realizing that our suffering is… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The media covers what's new - and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it's… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Let us remember: when we talk of the rending of the veil we are speaking in a figure, and the thought of… — Tozer, A. W Copy Share Image
Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“The fourth is the thought of the sorrows that Christ bore gladly for us. If the only Man who ever could choose… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“If you saw a dog that was hit by a car in the street, lying there, hurt, in pain, broken... would you… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“Burn wounds always elicited pain more terrible than anything else he had ever endured. He didn’t relish the idea of forcing himself… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In virtually every spiritual tradition, suffering is seen as a doorway to awakening. In the West, this connection can be seen in… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The far-sighted, perfect love that seeks perfection of it's object does not weakly shrink from present, transient, suffering. Our Father's love is… — Mrs. Charles E. Cowman Copy Share Image
Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
“God does not “keep” his people. He loves us, gives himself to us, and eagerly awaits our free response. God wants us… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“If we want to benefit most from our suffering, by prayer and meditation, we will approach our suffering as a good soldier… — J. Ligon Duncan III Copy Share Image
For a while after my daughter was born I was at war with God. There's a lot of psychological stuff you deal… — Everlast Copy Share Image
“She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
