Contact Quote by Lydia Millet

“Suffering creates a vivid contrast illuminating joy, happiness, and satisfaction. It is a harsh lesson on the other side of sublime. We all must…

— Brent Green

“Sublime places gently move us to acknowledge limitations that we might otherwise encounter with anxiety or anger in the ordinary flow of events. It…

— Alain de Botton

“the suffering experienced here on earth is but for a moment, and it pales in comparison to the glory which will be revealed.”

— Cassandra Baker-Durham

“Give a name to suffering, perhaps the most immediate reminder of our insignificance and powerlessness, and suddenly it bears the trace of the human.…

— Gary Greenberg

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

— Roberto Assagioli

This sublime love, being, by an intimate conjunction with its object, thoroughly refined from all base dross of selfishness and interest, nobly begets a…

— Robert Boyle

“Nowhere has God promised anyone, even His children, immunity from sorrow, suffering, and pain. This world is a “vale of tears,” and disappointment and…

— Billy Graham

“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.”

— Brent Green

Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now…

— May Sarton

“The suffering that started off challenging our being and our ideas of what life is and should be ends up opening our heart, expanding…

— Anonymous

The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.

— Alphonsus Liguori

Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within…

— Anwar Sadat