Quotes About Suffering

Why are people so unkind?

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.

Only the wounded physician heals.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

All pain is the same.

There is both joy and suffering on planet Earth because this beautiful world is a world of duality - a world of opposites. There is an opposite side to everything.

Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.