Quotes About Suffering

Once enough people see the falseness of their thoughts and realize that their thoughts are the cause of their suffering, and once people realize the possibility of a better reality, consciousness can change quite rapidly.

We need to understand that the suffering people cause themselves and others comes from this primitive aspect of human nature and isn't a reflection of their true nature or value as a human being. The only thing that allows us to hurt or go to war with others is the belief that they are evil rather than that they, like us, are driven by a primitive aspect of themselves that perpetrates evil.

Language such as "good" and "bad" and "I like" and "I don't like" divides the world into what you want and don't want. Then when life shows up in a way you don't like, you suffer. By wanting life to look a certain way, you cause your own suffering. The hero has seen how such dualities and desires create suffering and how suffering wouldn't exist without them.

After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

El martirio de la humanidad es doble: para el macho, la más dura fatiga: el pensar; para la hembra, la más espantosa tortura: el parir.

Amar aos homens como castigo Como os homens são, quase todos, desprezíveis e repugnantes - tudo menos dignos de amor -, amá-los por determinação (e só por temor a Deus os podemos amar) constitui uma pena, um suplício, uma penitência.

R?spunsul meu - singurul posibil la vremea aceea - la r?ut?cioasa nedreptate a sorÈ›ii È™i la t?cuta duÈ™m?nie a oamenilor, a fost convingerea în nesfârÈ™ita deÈ™ert?ciune a tuturor lucrurilor, în tic?loÈ™ia înn?scut? È™i în nefericirea de neînl?turat a speÈ›ei umane.

M? zb?team împotriva ispitelor unei mediocrit??i necesare, încercam s? creez în jurul meu o singur?tate nemiloas? a spiritului, dac? nu a trupului; luptam cu mine însumi, m? pedepseam, m? obiÈ™nuiam cu suferinÈ›ele, în vederea unor încerc?ri apropiate È™i cumplite.

Il dolore è ancor più dolore se tace.

perché coi disgraziati succede così, che una spina scaccia l'altra, e il Signore non vuole ficcarcele tutte in una volta, perché si morirebbe di crepacuore.

Era avvezzo a tutto lui, agli scapaccioni, alle pedate, ai colpi di manico di badile, o di cinghia da basto, a vedersi ingiuriato e beffato da tutti, a dormire sui sassi, colle braccia e la schiena rotta da quattordici ore di lavoro; anche a digiunare era avvezzo, allorché il padrone lo puniva levandogli il pane o la minestra.

No, young man, I don't envy you or your youth. All that you have to face and suffer is still ahead of you.

Crois-moi, la seule chose que tu peux contrôler c'est ta façon d'interpréter les événements. Si tu pars de l'idée que ce ne sont pas les choses, mais le jugement que nous portons sur elles qui nous fait souffrir, alors tu peux aspirer à prendre le contrôle de ta vie. Sinon tu es condamné à tirer sur des mouches avec un canon. »

Crois-moi, la seule chose que tu peux contrôler c'est ta façon d'interpréter les événements. Si tu pars de l'idée que ce ne sont pas les choses, mais le jugement que nous portons sur elles qui nous fait souffrir, alors tu peux aspirer à prendre le contrôle de ta vie. Sinon tu es condamné à tirer sur

Man cannot survive by bread and water alone, but bread and water and hate?

He had a reservoir of tolerance for pain. Finite, though. Pain would empty it, eventually.

Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.

Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing . . .

Thanks," she says - and suddenly tears well and fall. Augustus understands: not because she's suffered but because he's helping her. When you're a child people's cruelty makes you cry. When you're an adult it's their kindness.

I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

I'd heard a Catholic nun on TV once saying that bearing suffering was the route to grace. I remembered Fluff saying: If there's a God he's addicted to faith. Because without evil there's no need for faith. I can't get excited about a God who's divinity depends on a drug habit.

That was the treachery of suffering. It took you to the point from which you thought death must follow, then let you know it could hold you there indefinitely. That was when you stopped fearing death and started wanting it, praying for it, begging for it.

But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.