Quotes About Suffering

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!

Life is, of course, terrible.

Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Life is a long headache in a noisy street.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

How remorseless life is!

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don't suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.

Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life.

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.