The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as… — Joel Dicker Copy Share Image
Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Our story is not only about exile and oppression and suffering. It is the story of thriving, of triumph, and of great… — Daniella Levy Copy Share Image
Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't… — Christine Warren Copy Share Image
“To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“She was left to beg for mercy only to burn in torment again the next day. She was a weed struggling through… — Airicka Phoenix Copy Share Image
I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
Ask yourself, "Is there anything in my life that is causing me to feel a sense of unease, discomfort, or pain?" You… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
“From the essay on Love, in which he describes as a wilderness experience his daily visits with his wife to a hospital… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish,… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow.… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
After four tours of duty as a Navy SEAL officer, I came home from Iraq and watched the VA - the second-biggest… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Constant transmigration of the soul from one body to another is the cause of suffering in material existence. This conditional life in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean… — Plato Copy Share Image
Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
“What is nature like? It does not allow any living being to do what it wants even to the slightest extent. But… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will… — John Green Copy Share Image
Ash: I know better than to interfere with the natural order, but I couldn't let you die. I didn't want to watch… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
