Suffering Quotes - Page 155

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating.

I like these boots," I told Vayl. "Do you think they'd sell them to me cheap? I keep ruining mine." "Since when do you fret over money?" he asked with amusement. "I was not even sure you knew what to do with it." I shrugged. "A women has needs." "Still." said Cole. "Gosh, Jaz, why didn't you say something to me? I'd never let you suffer.

You know, you struggle and cry and moan and thrash around and beat your head against the wall... and then you realize that you're just yourself, and you come to terms with yourself struggling. There are some serious, serious things to deal with in terms of the immensity of the suffering that we humans create for ourselves and for the world around us.

I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.

Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

To be a value investor, you have to be willing [and able] to suffer pain.

I'm not suffering from withdrawal symptoms. I would say that I have a balanced state of mind.

We need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe's, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

First there's the promise ring, then the engagement ring, then the wedding ring... soon after... comes Suffer...ring!

Clinton vetoed the repeal of the marriage tax. I guess Bill figures if he's married, then we all have to suffer.

Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

If sinners where so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?

Who can judge another man's suffering?

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer this.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want to stop the bleeding. Another medical aspect is the treatment of chronic complaints that are disabling in some way. And many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic. So there is a reasonable, sensible, medical side to psychotherapy.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.