In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
You've never suffered in your life and you say you're wise... Who is your Teacher? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering. — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
“Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way into eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how… — Kayla Mueller Copy Share Image
Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The reality of heaven doesn't take away the pain of or suffering or our losses, but it assures us that our pain… — Dave Dravecky Copy Share Image
A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
He who would reach the desired goal must, while a boy, suffer and labor much and bear both heat and cold. [Lat.,… — Horace 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
My father . . . used to say, 'I need my anger. It obliges me to take action.' I think my father… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image