Quotes About Suffering

The gesiths they passed sang a cheerful, ugly song. One in four rode with poles topped by brutalised heads of Lindeymen. They did not look human. Hild pretended they were not.

Her mind was empty of everything but the feel of iron gritting through muscle and cartilege.

Humanity is not cured of its diseases except by means of catastrophes that decimate it. Man has never known how to renounce at the right time.

Our last hope lies in the injustice of God.

Humanity longs to free itself from poverty, from toil, from war—from everything which few escape without degrading themselves.

Let us be careful not to call accepting what degrades us without any resistance "accepting life".

When the Communist Army took over China

it was wartime. People were being bombed out all over the place. Bad experience is more bearable when you are not the only sufferer.

Soha életemben nem követtem el b?nt - mondtam határozottan - Mi másért lenne ide bezárva, minthogy b?nt követett el? Éppen az bizonyítja, hogy b?nös, hogy itt van.

i was a prisoner of events

The best way to eliminate all suffering in the world would be to eliminate all sentient life. If there were no living things capable of feeling pain, then there would be no pain.

Suffering should always open the door to wisdom.

In the name of peace They waged the wars Ain't they got no shame

Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.

Don't Take Anything Personally Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

When you die, every single muscle in your body hurts. Your body has closed down because it thinks it's done, and when it gets rebooted, every inch of you hurts. Plus I'd had the shit beaten out of me with a baseball bat.

I jadni mladi? zaklanjao bi lice rukama i ko zna koliko bi puta u svome životu poslije toga uzdrhtao, vide?i koliko je mnogo okrutne grubosti sakriveno u prefinjenim i ugla?enim ljudima i, bože, ?ak i u onom ?ovjeku koga društvo smatra plemenitim i ?estitim...

If pain is too bad to be executed by everybody, and seen by everybody, is it not because it is too bad?

She wept and suffered, and finally, when Father had left the house again, she went to one of her secret places where a bottle was, and drank a tunnel away from the pain.

Old age is woman's hell.

We shall suffer as long as our thoughts and actions are prompted by desires and fears.

In the great mirror of consciousness, images arise and disappear and only memory gives them continuity. And memory is material - destructible, perishable, transient. On such flimsy foundations we build a sense of personal existence - vague, intermittent, dreamlike. This vague persuasion, "I am so-and-so," obscures the changeless state of pure awareness and makes us believe that we are born to suffer and to die.

To be is to suffer. The narrower the circle of my self-identification, the more acute the suffering caused by desire and fear.

You are concerned with your own happiness and I am telling you that there is no such thing. Happiness is never your own, it is where the 'I' is not.