Suffering Quotes - Page 124

There is no way to be in cyclic existence without creating the causes of suffering.

Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.

But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.

I'm not much of a multitasker, and when I'm in productive mode, organizational things suffer.

The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge." - James Baldwin, "The Creative Process

As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

We urge you to understand the Palestinian reality, and not to rush in and impose conditions and demands that ignore this reality and increase the suffering of the people.

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy.

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.