Quotes About Suffering

So if I want to experience pleasant feelings, I have to constantly chase them, while driving away the unpleasant feelings. Even if I succeed, I immediately have to start all over again, without ever getting any lasting reward for my troubles.

Paradoxically, the more sacrifices we make for an imaginary story, the stronger the story becomes, because we desperately want to give meaning to these sacrifices and to the suffering we have caused. In politics this is known as the 'Our Boys Didn't Die in Vain' syndrome.

In the end he came to the realization that suffering is not caused by ill fortune, by social injustice, or by divine whims. Rather, suffering is caused by the behaviour patterns of one's own mind

The discrepancy between evolutionary succes and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution.

La moral no significa «seguir los mandatos divinos». Significa «reducir el sufrimiento».

If only everything hurt as little as a blow to the face.

Întâmpl?ri, fericite ?i nefericite, care au lovit adânc, poate de moarte câteva biete inimi omene?ti, vai, atât de omene?ti!

Sînt fl?mînzi de p?mînt descul?ii... ?ip? foamea în ei... Nimeni nu le aude ?ip?tul, ori, cine-l aude, îndeas? c?ciula pe urechi ?i se face c? nu-l aude — c?ciula de astrahan...

Biete suflete care nu vor s? se desprind? de trup!... Aceasta mi se pare c? e taina cea mare a vie?ii. ?i frumuse?ea cea mare a vie?ii. C? oricît ar suferi trupul, c? oricît ar suferi sufletul însu?i, trupul ?i sufletul r?mîn îmbr??i?a?i. Trupul nu vrea s? se despart? de suflet ?i sufletul nu vrea s? se despart? de bun?voie de trup.

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed.

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

In all affairs, whether large or small, there are few men who reach a happy conclusion except through the Way. If you do not succeed, you are bound to suffer from the judgment of men. If you do succeed, you are bound to suffer from the yin and yang. To suffer no harm whether or not you succeed - only the man who has virtue can do that.

Each day came forth from the hand of God newly created and alive with opportunities to do His will. We for our part, can accept and offer back to God every prayer, work, and suffering of the day, no matter how insignificant or unspectacular they may seem to us. Between God and the individual soul, however, there are no insignificant moments: this is the mystery of divine providence."—WALTER CISZEK

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." —HELEN KELLER

It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.

What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear the moral reason is for the war in which one side looks better than the other, by the time the war ends both sides have been engaged in evil.

permití que el ostracismo y la amargura se adueñaran de mi existencia.

I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.

If our hearts are open to seeing suffering, they can easily break under the weight of so much pain in our world. Our anger may threaten to consume us and turn us into people who hate, even though it was our love that broke our hearts open to begin with.

It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

Déjà, il était trop tard. Ils ne savaient bien. L'ennemi avait clairement gagné. Bientôt il ne resterait plus du miracle de la vie sur notre planète que la monoculture des vaches, cochons, chiens et poules maltraités, quelques autres espèces utiles -ainsi que des humains, d'horribles, de répugnants, d'imbattables humains.