Quotes About Suffering

Suffering just means you're having a bad dream. Happiness means you're having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

I wish I had never been born, " she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness, " said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...

When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it.

Je tiefer sich das Leid in euer Sein eingräbt, desto mehr Freude könnt ihr fassen.

This planet is a "Hell" and there is no "Heaven" up there. So, learn to be "Happy in Hell".

Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering

Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.

Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?

Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

Happiness is just like a glacier-the visible one eighth tip sitting on seven eighth mass of pain and suffering under the surface

A man came to Budha and said, "I want happiness". Budha replied" Remove 'I", its your ego, Remove "want" its you source of misery, Now you are left with "happiness".

Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

The Right Knowledge reduces pain-and-suffering, and increases happiness. If we fall short of having acquired the Right Knowledge, the faults is ours', isn't it?

I had never imagined that happiness could hurt so much.

the more a person smiles... the more is the pain he resides...

You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world.

There's this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

Because minds do blow and hearts do break. Those are not just sayings. And wolves and roaches are not the only creatures that chew off their legs to get out of traps—human beings do that, too.

Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence.

Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.