Quotes About Suffering

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing

Keeping a smile on your face when inside you feel like dying, for the sake of supporting others is Strength.

They say the people who exhibit the most kindness have experienced a lot of pain. The ones who act like the don't need love are the ones who need it more. The one's who take care of everyone else need care the most. And the people who smile may be the ones who cry when nobody is around.

A person full of compassion can hold the pain of the world without letting it crush you.

Another cruel morning has come. Oh, joy!

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available

This too shall pass - just like a kidney stone

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

Human beings are afraid of very simple things: we fear suffering, we fear mortality. What I was doing in Rhythm 0—as in all my other performances—was staging these fears for the audience: using their energy to push my body as far as possible. In the process, I liberated myself from my fears. And as this happened, I became a mirror for the audience—if I could do it, they could do it, too.

I didn't want children because I didn't want them to suffer. I had a dog, which suffered enough. I don't even want a goldfish or a turtle. I have a desert plant in my house that needs a glass of water maybe once a year, which I can deliver.

People who love you start to hate you when you become that rock star. Everybody is scrutinizing. They want you to be poor, to suffer, to struggle. I could not pay my electricity bill until I was 50, and now I can. I think this is something I should not be criticized for.

I have tried to understand what crucifixion must feel like. I just know that the pain must be beyond what I have ever experienced. I respect, love, and trust the One who endured all this when He didn't have to. I understand Jesus with my heart, and the rest of the world can think of Him as it will.

El dolor es inevitable porque es parte de la condición humana, mientras que el sufrimiento es una creación de la mente dualista.

Otra de las cosas que este extraordinario científico de la mente descubrió hace ya veinticinco siglos es que en la raíz de todo sufrimiento está la creencia, nuestro sentimiento de certeza, de que somos seres aislados, separados del resto del mundo.

En el hecho de identificarnos completamente con nuestra forma y no con nuestra esencia está la raíz de todos los problemas y el origen del sufrimiento. A esto es a lo que denominamos ego, la creencia en que estamos separados del universo y de la propia Vida.

Lo que sí no es ningún tipo de diversión es la cantidad cada vez mayor de personas que han venido a morir al salón de belleza. Ya no son solamente amigos en cuyos cuerpos el mal está avanzado, sino que la mayoría son extraños que no tiene dónde irse a morir.

Entonces sentí una tremenda opresión en el pecho, una opresión en la que no parecía estar afectado ningún órgano físico, pero que era algo asfixiante, insoportable. Ahí, en el pecho, cerca de la garganta, ahí debe estar el alma, hecha un ovillo.

Cuando uno soporta sufrimientos propios no tiene necesidad de adjudicarse dolores ajenos.