Quotes About Suffering

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Every suffering is a buddha-seed, because suffering impels mortals to seek wisdom. But you can only say that suffering gives rise to buddhahood. You can't say that suffering is buddhahood. Your body and mind are the field. Suffering is the seed, wisdom the sprout, and buddhahood the grain.

Världen vaknar enligt tidszon, men inte min människa, aldrig igen. Det här gör för ont för att ta i med ord.

For in all adversity of fortune, it is the most unhappy kind of misfortune to have been happy.

the heavens are not humane, nor is any man with a head on his shoulders. Here

Nebesa nejsou humánní, ale je asi nÄ›co víc než tato nebesa, soucit a láska, na kterou už jsem zapomenul a zapomnÄ›l.

Trembling as usual, I dropped to one knee and, holding on to the drum with one hand, looked up, wondering what he, my boss, had against me, what made him pull such terrifying faces, faces so indignant, so full of suffering that they always made me believe that I was a repulsive person and a hopeless worker who inflicted the most ignoble blows on his noble superior.

The heavens are not humane, but I'd forgotten compassion and love.

Nebesa nejsou humánní a já už toho mám dost.

The heavens may be far from humane, but I'd had about all I could take. So

a horror more intense than pain, and visited it upon them in the moment of truth.

No, the heavens are not humane, nor is any man with a head on his shoulders.

E in questa infermeria militare che io guardavo, la cosa più strana erano quegli occhi umani, gli occhi di quei soldati feriti, come se quel dolore là al fronte, quel dolore che avevano fatto a loro, come se quel dolore facesse di loro degli uomini diversi.

Everything has its own torture chamber, but also its own paradise.

I cannot avoid seeing the so-called dreamworld of life with all its challenge, suffering, joy, and possibility. I feel we know and live in two worlds: infinite consciousness and ordinary expressions of material life. To me, we are the wondrous expressions of form within a timeless, unlimited vastness.

Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Paul of Tarsus, and Milarepa the Tibetan saint are examples of the sudden transformation from fighter to spiritual seeker. Siddhartha was a wealthy prince and father, but when he saw suffering and death for the first time, he plunged dramatically into a spiritual search, leaving home to pursue truth and to become the enlightened Buddha.

But the one thing we can all agree -- all faiths, all ideologies -- is that God is with the vulnerable and poor. God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

Suicide offers quick authority over a life that feels it has lost all agency.

The pain and suffering of this world are only the images of gloom, and they are only real in the moment when the spark identifies itself with the shell of darkness. - Book of Consolation, 8.15

the most miserable are those who do the

In the first place, those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much suffering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

The ministry was the profession that suffered most—and still suffers, though there has been great improvement—on account of not only ignorant but in many cases immoral men who claimed that they were "called to preach.

Of my ancestry I know almost nothing. In the slave quarters, and even later, I heard whispered conversations among the coloured people of the tortures which the slaves, including, no doubt, my ancestors on my mother's side, suffered in the middle passage of the slave ship while being conveyed from Africa to America.