Quotes About Suffering

Families are also about offering endless possibilities for pain.

Il nemico è qui. Dentro le frontiere segnate dal capriccio e dalla bramosia di profitto. L'umanità che soffre e lavora, quella è la nostra patria. Il nemico, è l'oligarchia ladra che si ingozza del nostro sudore. Non ci ingannate più. ... Non mi ingannate più. E, in cuor mio, non vi perdono. Clément Duval.

Aresztowanie Gomu?ki w latach stalinizmu zmazywa?o przynajmniej cz??ciowo jego wcze?niejsze zbrodnie. To prawda, komunista, odpowiedzialny za powojenne bezece?stwa, ale przecie? sam te? przez komunistów szykanowany. Przez te lata w odosobnieniu znalaz? si? po stronie cierpi?cych Polaków. Na nikogo lepszego wówczas nie mogli liczy?.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

In the darkness you could hear the crying of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men. Some prayed for help. Others wished for death. But still more imagined that there were no Gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness.

When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.

Thus it is that most people seem to suffer more from hard words than hard deeds, and are more excited by insult than by actual hurt. What we do to our enemies in war is done of necessity, but the evil we say of them seems to spring from an excess of spite.

For humans it is not at all possible to have the best thing of all or to have any share of the best nature—since the best thing for all men and women is not to be born. But the second best thing after this and the first available to mortals, is to die as soon as possible after being born." It is clear that he said this because the way that exists in death is better than the one in life.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

Because Buddhism presents a spiritual argument for the transformation (not the medication) of suffering, as well as specific and systematic methods of analyzing subjective distress, it now assists me in being able to address audiences about the principles and uses of analytic psychotherapy.

T]he formless self is free from all suffering even as it compassionately 'takes on' the suffering of all.

Suffering from feelings of inner emptiness, some meditation practitioners may misunderstand and likewise be attracted to the Buddhist notion of 'no-self,' and mistakenly seek doctrinal validation for their feelings of emptiness.

When your own painful experiences inspire you to the extent that you become truly determined to break free of suffering, that is what the Buddha taught as the attitude of "renunciation.

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

War is a defeat for humanity.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.

you always felt they were pawns in an indifferent universe, butts of an existential joke with no punch line.

My God—very literally, my God—we can't go on … having regular bowel movements … while creation happens!

SUFFERING together, is a greater bond of union than that of JOY.