Quotes About Suffering

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.

Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.

Man hurts man, time and time again. As we drown in the wake of our power, somebody tell me why?

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.

I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

I haven't got time for the pain.

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

This is painful and it will be for a long time.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.

For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them.

God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.

You didn't understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.

And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

If you look at communal experiments in general for any amount of time, you'll find a lot of horrors: raped children, sexual slavery, eugenics experiments, on and on.

Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.