Quotes About Suffering

he resisted the temptation to avoid suffering

The barn by the Roulette house was jammed with wounded men. Screams, prayers, and curses made it a horrible place, with hundreds of anguished men packed together on the straw begging the surgeons to attend to them—surgeons bare-armed and fearsomely streaked and spattered with blood, piles of severed arms and legs lying by the slippery operating tables, the uproar of the battle beating in through the thin walls.

We are opposed to Negro equality. To prevent this we are willing to spare the last man, down to the point where women and children begin to suffer for food and clothing; when these begin to suffer and die, rather than see them equalized with an inferior race we will die with them.

You do not have to suffer to learn, but if you don't learn from suffering . . . then your life becomes truly meaningless.

Please not to laugh at me. God must matter terribly to men when they are lying bleeding to death in the snow. The memory of the laughter of friends and the tinkle of glasses doesn't help them when one is alone for the last time in pain and with final knowledge of the purpose of life.

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young man sits in one.

The house was full of relatives and poison, undercurrents camouflaged with cosmetic mirth.

spending most of her life in darkness, like a tongue.

The imagination is always the best torturer.

Le donne erano destinate a soffrire; non c'era da meravigliarsi che volessero sempre grandi dichiarazioni d'amore

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn't believe them, I didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. That joy is in everyone, always.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It's not our thoughts, but the attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it's true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we've been attaching to, often for years.

The unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered," Katie says, "but that when I didn't believe them, I didn't suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It's not our thoughts, but the attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering.

El sufrimiento es una alarma natural que nos alerta de que nos estamos apegando a un pensamiento; cuando no escuchamos, llegamos a aceptar ese sufrimiento como una parte inevitable de la vida, pero no lo es.

There's no light, no up or down, no possibility of movement, no anything. There's nothing, forever, with no way out. I felt such terror.

People used to ask me if I was enlightened, and I would say, "I don't know anything about that. I'm just someone who knows the difference between what hurts and what doesn't.

El sufrimiento está causado por un apego a una creencia profundamente fijada. Es un estado en el que se produce un apego ciego a algo que uno cree que es verdad.

I was sole keeper and mistress of the impossible. I possessed the keys to pain.

Yo nací un día que Dios estuvo enfermo, grave...