Quotes About Suffering

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.

When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.

All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.

The reward of suffering is experience

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

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

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.