Quotes About Suffering

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself

The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous.

We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist.

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It's just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.-Kenshin to Eiji