Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard,… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that… — David Brin Copy Share Image
To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
“I know for a fact that no matter where I go, the memory and the suffering of not being with you will… — CSTPimentel Copy Share Image
We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
“Suffering is not avoided, and is even sought for, simply because it is the hardest thing for man to deal with, and… — Rodney Collin Copy Share Image
And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
“Ultimately the only answer God gave to job was a revelation of Himself. It was as if God said to him, "Job,… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Although I know that there is ultimately greater glory in suffering than in joy, it is joy that sustains us. It is… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
Like the suffering child, gang members act out of their despair, and their actions are all the more alarming now for our… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
“it’s a long lane that has no turning,” “the weariest day draws to an end,” etc., seemed false and vain sayings, so… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“There are people who are destined to taste only the poison in things, for whom any surprise is a painful surprise and… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen… — Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Copy Share Image
“I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Living in a house where domestic violence goes on every day never feels like home. You don't have to suffer in silence.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world,… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
We need a new order of ministers to stand in pulpits. It's not enough to sing and praise God in worship services.… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
God wants us to relieve suffering, pursue justice, facilitate reconciliation, and free the heart to love, but He desires for us to… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably… — Tom Freston Copy Share Image
“not heaven and earth and the great seas, not the creatures that live in the water and on dry land, not plants,… — Basil the Great Copy Share Image
If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
