“As the reaper of his own harvest, man learns both of suffering and bliss” — James Allen Copy Share Image
“I will kill myself soon. But until then how do l tame my pain?” — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
The thing about music is that it gives voice and names to anguish and also addresses how to comfort it. — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
“I hate and I love. You ask why I do this? I do not know, but I feel and I am tormented.… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer. — Mark Twight Copy Share Image
I thought about all those people whose suffering had been erased, and I thought, 'Why can't they speak? Why can't I undo… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
South Sudan is my home, and I am humbled to be in a position to help those suffering from lack of access… — Luol Deng Copy Share Image
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It would be like when the Cubs won the World Series. Everybody in the country has probably been cheering for them for… — Joe Thomas Copy Share Image
Not only does society suffer from racism and sexism but it also suffers from ageism. Once you reach a certain age you're… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I. — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
“It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.” — Hermann Bahr Copy Share Image
“An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reversed. A palindrome: gut-tug.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two? — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain.” — Timothy W. Tron Copy Share Image
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk) — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
