We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It's so easy how a person that you love betray you, they'll lie to you, convincing you to listen to them, I… — Lisa Copy Share Image
Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Some people have a view of self and of the universe that obliges them to struggle for happiness, to yearn for happiness-"some… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“It’s inevitable. But we pretend it isn’t until that point where we can’t deny it anymore. Then we begin to repent.” “Repent… — Michael Deeze Copy Share Image
“Because life, as Pablo Picasso averred, 'is a very bad novel', it has to be reworked through the writers' suffering into something… — Cirilo F. Bautista Copy Share Image
“Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The story of the Burning House is really about our practice of Buddhism. We are constantly living in a burning house, a… — Ryusho Jeffus Copy Share Image
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“God has chosen to save the world through the cross, through the shameful and powerless death of the crucified Messiah. If that… — Richard Hays Copy Share Image
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What's that?' Beck shoved his back ineffectually against the glass door, suffering under the weight of a huge box. 'Your brian.' I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
Most people wish they could erase suffering out of the dictionary. Today's culture of comfort and instant gratification has no patience for… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And if you think that you're showing your love to Catherine by suffering the way you've been doing, then somewhere along the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The output is far from smooth, and the impact on dispatchable plant required to deal with residual demand is highly significant. Our… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Our suffering is often the deep soul groaning for the purposes of God in and through us. Mission cannot be fulfilled without… — Gregory Beale Copy Share Image
I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence of which there is so much. No sympathy for leaders who… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the greatest strike against philosophical pessimism is that its only theme is human suffering. This is the last item on the… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“To the pain means the first thing you will lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“So he had them into the slaughter house, where was a butcher killing a sheep. And behold, the sheep was quiet and… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there's intelligent life… — Stephen Law Copy Share Image
If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Fear of death is understandable, being that we are all going to die, but fear of life and suffering is more of… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. This is a delicate… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The character of the disillusioned warrior soothed by the simplicity and silence of nature is an archetype of this war-driven, industrialized era.… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
Love hunger and thirst for the sake of Christ. Insofar as you pacify your body, so much much will you do make… — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
“When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship—… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Fear of success is one of the new fears I've heard about lately. And I think its definitely a sign that we're… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the… — Bart Yates Copy Share Image
We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content;… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
These artists all have some kind of message to the public. These messages can be quite personal, maybe about their own existential… — Gunnar Kvaran Copy Share Image
