Inspirational Quote by Pema Chodron

“Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a…

— Pema Chödrön

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.

— Euripides

When we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround…

— Quentin L. Cook

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters

— Mathias Malzieu

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

— Jonathan Edwards

Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ...

— Lydia Millet

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for…

— Jupiter Hammon

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So…

— Matthew Arnold

The sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

— Anonymous

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And,…

— Clive Barker

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

— Roberto Assagioli