The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality.… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
“Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my… — Krzysztof Kieślowski Copy Share Image
“Could God have justified Himself before human history, so full of suffering, without placing Christ's Cross at the center of that history?… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“And what agony, thought Krug the thinker, to love so madly a little creature, formed in some mysterious fashion (even more mysterious… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We never will get a full situation of open transparency, but we should seek to bring forth the major concerns about injustice… — Beyers Naude Copy Share Image
“The animals feel that this urgency is mutual. Their own suffering has made them aware of human suffering. More frequent contact with… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“a regimen of hardship and humiliation that at least offered you the dignity of feeling like your existence bore some sort of… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I always understood the idea of the ultimate redeemer, Christ on the cross. But now I was beginning to see that this… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
My father . . . used to say, 'I need my anger. It obliges me to take action.' I think my father… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
'Sons of the Prophet' is a dark comedy about human suffering. The play explores the particularly messy portions of life - the… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
The antique, almost primitive band he held between his fingers caught the sunlight, glinting silver. “I found this ring shortly after I… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Most people confuse the "now" with what is happening to them in the now. Actually what is happening to you now has… — Stephen Weiss Copy Share Image
Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“For us, eating and being eaten belong to the terrible secret of love. We love only the person we can eat. The… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
If you are dating someone famous, you tend to be seen as part of a couple, rather than as an individual. But… — Max Beesley Copy Share Image
There will be no more danger, pollution or destruction, none of these things that we suffer from so much today. Everything will… — David Berg Copy Share Image
There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I love the verse in Job, where it says a man deserves the devotion of his friends even when he forsakes the… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Writer George Orwell confessed he found something "deeply appealing" about Adolf Hitler. Where Martha Dodd was struck by Hitler's "weak, soft face,"… — Brad Marchand Copy Share Image
One of the primary conditions for suffering is denial. Shutting our mind to pain, whether in ourselves or others, only ensures that… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“What can you say about pain? Words can trace only the shadow of the thing itself. The reality of hard, sharp physical… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
