Believe Quote by Paulo Coelho

“During her life, Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horrors in other people's lives as if…

— Paulo Coelho

“During her life Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horrors in other people’s lives as if…

— Paulo Coelho

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning…

— Diane Wood Middlebrook

“But whatever any of them thought one thing was always certain: even though they suffered and had to struggle at times to bring meaning…

— Nadeem Aslam

“That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made people feel better…

— Neal Stephenson

There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was…

— Cassandra Clare

“Experience makes good people better." She was staring at the lake. "How does it do that?" "Through their suffering." "I had enough of that,"…

— Bernard Malamud

“Whereas the Greeks had Zeus and Athena, we had people who still lived in Verdun. They had a lot to bear on their shoulders.…

— Heather O'Neill

“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under…

— John Brunner

“And, really, if she had been given the choice- the whole choice, the good, and the bad, the pain and the glory,- she would…

— Laura McBride

“They saw the world in different ways. For him, life was like a story that had answers, or a conclusion that made sense. For…

— David Bergen