Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Caleb Colton

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Charles Spurgeon

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

Charles Spurgeon

Suffering saints are living seed.

Charles Spurgeon

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Alan Watts

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

Alan Watts

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

Chin-Ning Chu

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

Chogyam Trungpa

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

David Brin

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

Anais Nin

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

Alfred Adler

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

Fran Drescher

our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses.

Hubert H. Humphrey

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Martin Amis

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

Jim Shaw

I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

Lionel Trilling

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

Carl Sagan

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Judit Molnar

We are presenting the emptiness and mourning the Holocaust left behind.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

Kat Morgan

Only within the word love truth enters. Within emptiness you become pregnant with what you are searching for.

James Marsh

There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

Alan Dean Foster

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

Chris Hadfield

The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Bertrand Russell

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.