Cutting Quote by George Sand

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from…

— Maimonides

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

— Orville Dewey

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

— C. S. Lewis

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

— Roberto Assagioli

Once we decide to condemn others,we have automatically placed ourselves on the judgement seat and our imperfections as human beings will hardly retain us…

— Terry Mark

We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members…

— Frances Harper

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

— Michel de Montaigne

“But it's a curse, a condemnation, like an act of provocation, to have been aroused from not being, to have been conjured up from…

— Paul Harding

“We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the subtlest, the…

— Emil M. Cioran

“I have a childlike conviction that the sufferings will be healed and smoothed over, that the whole offensive comedy of human contradiction will disappear…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is not that the Word of God is threatening us with fire and brimstone, but rather it is saying that goodness is its…

— Richard Rohr

There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

— Tertullian