Quotes About Suffering

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.

My true desire is to relieve others of their pain, though I myself may fall into hell.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

Emotion arise from Desire, hence an Illusion.

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.

Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes