Suffering Quotes - Page 102

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't feel like suffering; it's fun and different then. But a little fame goes a long way, and then one tries to cast off part of the heavy burden - a burden one can never totally escape.

They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.

But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.