Suffering Quotes - Page 9

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

Worthless are those who injure others vengefully, while those who stoically endure are like stored gold. The gratification of the vengeful lasts only for a day, but the glory of the forbearing lasts until the end of time. Though unjustly aggrieved, it is best to suffer the suffering and refrain from unrighteous retaliation.

It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.