Daggers Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never…

— John Flavel

It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries…

— Samuel Johnson

“In psychology it is very important that the doctor should not strive to heal at all costs. One has to be exceedingly careful not…

— C.G. Jung

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very…

— Thomas Huxley

It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about…

— Charlotte Bronte

Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the…

— Eckhart Tolle

“It is inconceivable that any form of intelligence would waste so much time and effort to make such an inferior piece of life—with all…

— Joseph Lewis

“Yes, Lise. You see, your question whether we do not despise that unhappy man by dissecting his soul was the question of a person…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and…

— Adam Smith

Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the…

— Charles Dickens

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless…

— Novalis

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he…

— Joseph Addison