Quotes About Suffering

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored

The miserable have no other medicine but hope.

Amor fati: that is my innermost nature. And as regards my long sickness, do I not owe to it unutterably more than I owe to my health?

Love is the state in which man sees things most widely different from what they are. The force of illusion reaches its zenith here, as likewise the sweetening and transfiguring power. When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

There was really only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Man is the cruelest animal.

But we cannot go back to the life we shared with you yesterday, a life which you will spread before us so temptingly when you return. We have suffered too much to believe any more that the way to what we see as the Absolute can go in any other direction than through the deep valley of sorrow. Hell has not opened before our eyes to no purpose, and he who has once seen it cannot find his way back to earthly symposiums.

The last Christian died on the cross.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

Rather than face what really is, we prefer to retreat and compare what we're living through with the way we think it oughta be. Suffering comes from the comparison between the two.

The pain of having your dreams come true appears vividly when you realize that even if your dreams really come true, they never really come true. From birth to death it's just like this

The Buddha was not full of shit when he said the cause of suffering could be uprooted and that you can put an end to it once and for all. There is a way out of this mess humanity has found itself in. It's just that the answer to the cause of suffering — and the way to end it — are nothing at all like what you think they are or imagine they should be.

We always tend to think we can become happier by getting what we want, even if that means we have to make someone else suffer.

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are. Stop for a second and look at this in your life right now. It's important.

Maybe to exist as a thing separate from other things is itself pain.

I vow to save all beings ...from myself.

If at any time you are chastened of God, take it as thankfully and joyfully as in greatest mercies, for if ye be his ye shall reap the greatest benefit by it.

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.