Quotes About Suffering

When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights.

In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.

Kindness is seen as weakness and intelligence worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.

Mintha keresnénk a hálátlan vagy a lehetetlen feladatokat, és vannak, akik ilyenek közt élik az életüket, mert az életet csak úgy tudják elképzelni, hogy az csupa szenvedés, küzdelem, konfliktus és dráma: bonyolítják, hogy kibogozhassák, és így elfoglalják magukat egész idÅ' alatt, ami nekik adatott.

Recuerda, todo lo que hace fuerte, duele. Algunos quedan

le dice «Te quiero», pero se aborrece por ello. Es un amor malsano, que sólo puede traer la desgracia.

Desde la entrada norte hasta la sur había cadáveres Australes, Ainari y Ritiones, todos mezclados en una papilla de sangre y lodo, vísceras y excrementos.

In depression, I feel I have been taken over and have lost my self entirely. Instead, a rude incumbent has slumped into my life, leaving half-eaten sardines under the sofa and stale smells in every room.

There's no path to liberation that doesn't pass through the shadow.

We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn't cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly 'unnatural' way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.

For the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the goal is liberation: the cessation of suffering, the end of the endless hamster-wheel of dependent origination, of mental formations leading to desire leading to clinging leading to suffering and so on. Nibbana, or nirvana, was not originally conceived as some magical heavenly world, or even a permanent altered state of consciousness. It is usually described, in the early texts, negatively: as a candle being snuffed out.

Dukkha is not the self-inflicted stress of a technology executive; it's the real stuff, the kind of suffering that merits the Pali word's original meaning: brokenness, stuckness.

Torture has an indelible character. Whoever was tortured, stays tortured.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.