Quotes About Suffering

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

I believe in nature and humanity and am here to serve the common people of Pakistan. There is a great deal of suffering in this country and I'm here to help.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.