3,815 Quotes About Suffering

Perhaps the reality is in the suffering. But it can't be. Love promises happiness. Art promises happiness. Yet it isn't exactly a promise . . .

Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.

Your body-mind is like a cup made of clay. If it is filled with feelings -- negative, positive, dark, light sweet, sour-- close your eyes and drink it. Your soul can drink even poison as though it’s nectar. Everything is blissful at soul level.

The root of our problems is within our mind. It is our unskillful ways of thinking. We have to recognize the right ways of thinking, which bring happiness, and the wrong ways of thinking, which bring suffering. With one way of thinking, we have problems in our life; with another way of thinking, we don't. In other words, happiness and suffering come from our own mind. Our mind creates our life.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, you would begin to unravel in your mind- Reestablished Kingdom The Journal-

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

Thinking is suffering. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

Difficile è credere in una cosa quando si è soli, e non se ne può parlare con alcuno. Proprio in quel tempo Drogo si accorse come gli uomini, per quanto possano volersi bene, rimangono sempre lontani; che se uno soffre il dolore è completamente suo, nessun altro può prenderne su di sé una minima parte; che se uno soffre, gli altri per questo non sentono male, anche se l'amore è grande, e questo provoca la solitudine della vita.