Quotes About Suffering

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

It hurts more to be a victim of oppression than a beneficiary, but oppression dehumanizes everyone.

According to existential psychotherapist Irvin Yalom: 'Death … itches all the time; it is always with us, scratching at some inner door, whirring softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness. Hidden and disguised, leaking out in a variety of symptoms, it is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts'.

When we experience physical or mental pain, the first thing to do is to acknowledge it and allow it to be there simply as a feeling that will pass. A popular and useful acronym to remember is RAIN: Recognise what is happening; Allow the experience to be there; Investigate with kindness; Non-identification. By doing this we can loosen the added layer of suffering and become better able to live with the pain.

In the Dhammap?da, happiness and unhappiness are said to originate in the mind: 'Speak or act with a corrupted mind, And suffering follows As the wagon wheel follows the hoof of the ox. … Speak or act with a peaceful mind, And happiness follows Like a never-departing shadow.

Counterintuitive though it may sound, joy can also arise from properly understanding impermanence. The Buddha says: 'When, by knowing the impermanence, change, fading away, and cessation of forms, one sees … with proper wisdom that forms … are all impermanent, suffering, and subject to change, joy arises.

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined eternally to reenact their escape.

I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

For nothing bestializes a being like the taste for eternal happiness, the search for eternal happiness at any price, and mademoiselle Lucifer is that slut who never wanted to abandon eternal happiness.

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

the Cross sets the world's history into the course of God's.

No necesito una novia. ¡Necesito un "te quiero" dicho con toda el alma! "Te quiero con tu tristeza y tu angustia; para sufrir contigo, y no para llevarte a ningún falso reino de la alegría.

El fracaso, el desasosiego, los pesares derivados de la falta de virtud, las verdaderas enfermedades, la herida del tiempo y toda suerte de agravios sociales y personales riegan con su amargura la vida. Basta que esa amargura rebase ciertos límites para caer en la dependencia de algún placer ambivalente, muchas veces de raíz masoquista, que ayuda a seguir viviendo cuando falta la decisión necesaria para el suicidio, y falta también la alegría de existir.

Un amor como el mío es un don de la vida. Todos, aun a su pesar, tendrían que haberme dado la enhorabuena... Pero estos amores son aborrecidos, anatematizados, y, aunque no se diga (porque la envidia pregona una insuficiencia), envidiados también. El mundo no ha sido hecho por los felices ni para los felices.

La nueva miel labramos con los dolores viejos, la veste blanca y pura pacientemente hacemos, y bajo el sol bruñimos el fuerte arnés de hierro.

Ninguno de los dos se tomó la molestia de averiguar si gozaba de aquellos momentos o si constituían un suplicio para ella. Al fin y al cabo, sólo era una esclava, y su opinión les tenía sin cuidado. Un

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.