Quotes About Suffering

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.

She didn't understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

You can't lead a true life without suffering

Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

I think, life is miserable.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

The life of an unenlightened person is filled with suffering.

There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.