Quotes About Suffering

The truth is what hurts

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.

It cannot bring back and make whole those who suffered and died by a racist's criminal hand. But it can at least reaffirm our nation's commitment to seek the truth and make equal justice a reality.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to be found in the minds of the reasonable and rational.

Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.

You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?