Suffering Quotes

In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from exile and the people in Tibet suffer from oppression.

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.

One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?

"Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it".

If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.

Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind.

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

Narcotics cannot still the tooth. That Nibbles at the soul

He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

I'm not suffering from some division of personality.

Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk.

As long as there are people suffering, how can I not be happy?

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

suffering sweetens the reward

For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.

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

You've got to suffer for your art sometimes!

Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.

You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

The most giving souls are those who give when they don't have to give, who could just walk away from this world and its suffering and merge with eternal existence and bliss forever.

Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer necessary for them to do so.

To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it doesn't really matter.

Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.

Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.

Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind.

There is a way to reach enlightenment and get beyond suffering.

Another condition can be attained ... a condition of ecstasy. A condition so far from what the people of planet Earth experience it's not even discussable.

Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.

Nirvana bears no resemblance to anything in your current perceptual field.

We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.

You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.

Nirvana is the pure and perfect schness of thatness of being.

Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there.

Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.