Quotes About Suffering

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

It is both theoretically and practically very impossible to have a happy ending in life as long as death exists.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.

If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.

No one goes through life with a whole heart.

I was always attracted to characters that were in some level of turmoil or suffering because I had so much of that in my own life and I wanted to channel it. I was always into darker things.

Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

I never got that show - Les Miz. It's about the French guy, right, who steals a loaf of bread, and then he suffers for the rest of his life. For Toast. Get over it!

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.

Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.

He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.

I Fall upon the thorns of life.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.