Quotes About Suffering

Es otro de los inconvenientes de padecer una desgracia: al que la sufre los efectos le duran mucho más de lo que dura la paciencia de quienes se muestran dispuestos a escucharlo y acompañarlo, la incondicionalidad nunca es muy larga si se tiñe de monotonía

O mal das desgraças muito grandes, que nos partem ao meio e que parece que não vamos poder suportar, é que quem as padece acredita, ou quase exige que com elas o mundo acabe, e contudo o mundo não faz caso e continua, e ainda por cima é exigente com quem sofreu a desgraça, isto é, não lhe permite sair como quem abandona um teatro, a não ser que o desgraçado se mate.

Los vínculos del engaño y la desdicha son los más fuertes de todos." Javier Marias - Asi empieza lo malo

Las cosas pasan, es verdad, pero siempre le pasan a alguno y no a otros, y se lamentan los que las padecen

we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you.

No te tomes nada personalmente porque, si lo haces, te expones a sufrir por nada. Los seres humanos somos adictos al sufrimiento en diferentes niveles y distintos grados; nos apoyamos los unos a los otros para mantener esta adicción. Hemos acordado ayudarnos mutuamente a sufrir. Si tienes la necesidad de que te maltraten, será fácil que los demás lo hagan.

Killing without reason or gain was a petty pleasure of sadistic fools.

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveller saying 'anywhere but here'.

Being seen by God empowers us to suffer well in our painful situations without being overwhelmed. Our lives can be productive. The God who saw the pain and misery of the Israelites and Hagar is able to see the pain and challenges we go through today.

Even love aghast was love, and God could not destroy that.

I hate him, too, she shivered. I hate his damned suffering.

cualquier signo de infelicidad en cualquier forma, puede ser el cuerpo del dolor que despierta. Puede tomar la forma de irritación, impaciencia, humor sombrío, un deseo de hacer daño, ira, cólera, depresión, la necesidad de drama en su relación amorosa y así sucesivamente.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

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.

The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

Identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive. Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.

How can we drop negativity, as you suggest? By dropping it. How do you drop a piece of hot coal that you are holding in your hand? How do you drop some heavy and useless baggage that you are carrying? By recognizing that you don't want to suffer the pain or carry the burden anymore and then letting go of it.

Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking. What an incredible liberation this is!

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, you are probably creating suffering for others too. These unconscious mind patterns tend to come to an end simply by making them conscious, by becoming aware of them as they happen. You cannot be conscious and create suffering for yourself.

In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer.

What is commonly called "falling in love" is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.

If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.