It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. ... I used to… — Elliott Merrick Copy Share Image
Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about,… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every… — Gore Vidal 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
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Mayfield said, "You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I speak of plurality of wives as one of the most holy principles that God ever revealed to man, and all those… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“Look, the unseen bade him, the voice which now communicated with him who was the greatest of mankind, Septimus, lately taken from… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all;… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Cuba was neo-colony of the United States and still suffers a blockade. So, therefore, the consumer goods and so forth, we don't… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
“It is not suffering as such that makes someone appreciate love, it is only when suffering pierces our vanity—which happens when we… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Human nature," I continued, "has its limits. It is able to endure a certain degree of joy, sorrow, and pain, but becomes… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
“The truth that many people never understand is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more your suffer, because smaller… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“Having proven that solitary pleasures are as delicious as any others and much more likely to delight, it becomes perfectly clear that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Seneca describes this in an extraordinary passage, in which he astutely observes that most human suffering relates to rumination about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“There were so many times that the sorrow and agony of a particular moment was punctuated by something intensely wonderful and beautiful.… — Laura Sobiech Copy Share Image
That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them.… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely… Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
“God allows you to struggle, even though his power could prevent it, because his wise and compassionate authority knows that the benefit… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that… — Arthur Adamov Copy Share Image
I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people… — Roberto Clemente Copy Share Image