Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once you know…

— Tennessee Williams

“Life is suffering. Until the great day of judgement, when peace and equanimity may be restored for those who are pure of heart and…

— John Boyne

“I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: that the deity who kills for pleasure will also heal, that in…

— Louise Penny

“And is it only a dream, that in the end man will find his joy in deeds of enlightenment and mercy alone, and not…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...inasmuch as every man takes the sufferings that fall to his share as the greatest.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

“You know that no one ever escaped the effect of his own good or evil deeds. For each of our actions is like a…

— Lakshmi Holmstrom

“Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense…

— Charles Dickens

“The spirit, my love, is stronger than laughter, stronger than the hungry panting of reckless lions that paw and shuffle underneath the canopy of…

— V.S. Atbay

“And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our imagination stray…

— Julie Summers

“We have come here together so that you might know, through virtue of your own pain, your own hopelessness, your own fear, your own…

— Jennifer DeLucy

“There comes a time when one has seen such suffering one begins to understand, in this world, even the innocent may be forced to…

— Jessica Skye Davies