Suffering Quotes - Page 115

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.

Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.

When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

There is no limit to suffering.

They're [[harmaceuticals companies] just making a killing out of people's death. And they're benefiting by people's suffering. And I find that obscene. I find it ridiculous in this day and age, that that would happen. And it took President Clinton to go to rogue pharmaceutical companies to copy the antiretroviral drugs for a fraction of the cost.

Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

You are the light of the world. You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that's freedom, liberation, awakening, the end of suffering and madness. And it's happening right here.

Stress is a form of suffering.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.