Quotes About Suffering

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.