Quotes About Suffering

Toda la felicidad de este mundo surge del deseo de que los demás sean felices, mientras que todo el sufrimiento surge de desear nuestra propia felicidad.

Algunos, bajo la influencia del deseo, trabajan como esclavos. Se agotan trabajando todo el día y cuando regresan a sus hogares por la noche, están tan cansados que se desploman como cadáveres.

En el samsara hay innumerables trampas que nos conducen al sufrimiento. En lugar de encontrar el camino de la vacuidad, que nos conduce a la libertad, seguimos atrapados por su opuesto, el aferramiento a la existencia verdadera. Si mientras permanecemos en el samsara no encontramos el camino de la vacuidad

Entiende que la fortuna no es sino infortunio interminable, por el desasosiego de adquirirla y guardarla y por la desolación que acompaña el perderla.

Cómo puede un ser fugaz apegarse a otro ser fugaz?, pues no volverá a ver a su ser amado en miles de nacimientos.

El dolor tiene otra virtud y es que al desasosiego que lo acompaña le siguen la caída de la soberbia, la compasión hacia aquellos que vagan arrastrados por la vorágine del renacer.

Que se le tema a lo que produce dolor. Pero, ¿qué temor puede sentirse ante la vacuidad que aquieta todo dolor? Si se cree que el yo es algo, habrá temor aquí y allá. Si se reconoce que el yo no es nada, ¿quién va a tener miedo?.

And therefore I'll dispel the pain of others, For it is simply pain, just like my own. And others I will aid and benefit, For they are living beings, like my body.

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.

One sticks his fingers in my eyes. I don't know what he has on his fingertips, but whatever it is burns like hell. I think I am gonna be blind forever. He says he will keep doing it until i am completely blind.

A poster of the massacre at My Lai, picturing women and children lying clumped together in a heap, their bodies riddled with bullets, hung on my wall as a daily reminder of the brutality in the world.

They lock you in the hole and they don't let you out until you consent to be searched internally.

I also had monilia, a vaginal discharge, which worsened because the Montefiore Hospital doctors assigned to Rikers could not agree about how it should be treated. They refused to treat the condition at all until my culture was returned from Elmhurst Hospital. By the time they managed to get the culture back, the whole inside of my thigh was chapped raw from the discharge, and i could barely walk.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quentin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us. Many jobless Black veterans and welfare mothers are joining our ranks. Brothers and sisters from all walks of life, who are tired of suffering passively, make up the BLA.

Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

You talk to it, and talk to it. And the stone listens, absorbing all your words, all your secrets, until one fine day it explodes. Bursts into tiny pieces." She cleans and moistens the man's eyes. "And on that day you are set free from all your pain, all your suffering ...

Tu sais, père, la douleur, soit elle arrive à fondre et à s'écouler par les yeux, soit elle devient tranchante comme une lame et jaillit de la bouche, soit elle se transforme en bombe à l'intérieur, une bombe qui explose un beau jour et qui te fait exploser.

Oh, ma syngué sabour, quand c'est dur d'êre femme, ça devient dur d'être homme!

On the one hand maybe I've remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

We are already in Hell. It is the earth itself that is Hell, the prison constructed for us by an intelligence superior to our own, in which I could not take a step without injuring the happiness of others, and in which my fellow creatures could not enjoy their own happiness without causing me pain.

Every moment of enjoyment Brings to some one else a sorrow, But your sorrow gladdens no one, For from sorrow naught but sorrow springs.

The ball was held in a middle-class home. The girls were anemic - some of them; the others were red as raspberries. John liked the pale ones best, the ones with black or blue rings round their eyes. They looked so sad and suffering and pitiable, and they cast tender yearning glances at him, such yearning glances.