Quotes About Suffering

I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because print media is suffering.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in this world Arises from wishing oneself to be happy.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy

Next to the highest peak of happiness, there's the deepest gap of pain.

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

We don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.

Joy came always after pain.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.