3,815 Quotes About Suffering

I can't take it anymore, I can't put up with this suffering I neither understand nor know when it will end.

I no longer have any fear of pain because I'm the one inflicting it and can decide when it stops.

The antidote to suffering is life and the seed of life is service.

If I were a lesbian, I’d probably be one of those lipstick lesbians, which I of course had in my pocket for touch-ups later.

I sat in my brown-belted gi at the painted metal table outside of Einstein’s and Peet’s with Mr. Ho, my Kenpo Karate instructor in his black-belted gi, and my bronze, canine psychologist, wearing his/her Lacoste eyeglasses.

Perhaps this 'dead' feeling was also brought on by an intensification of her old secret sorrow. Perhaps one day this sorrow might end. But she did not think it would end or see how it could end.

If you know people who are suffering, love them. Truly be of service. Even something as simple as a smile is loving and may be the only love or kindness gifted to them that day. Hug them, see them, love them, accept them unconditionally.

If you can take apart a machine and assemble it back again, you have mastered that machine. If you have fallen apart and pulled yourself back together, you have mastered yourself.

Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entitlement, and relevant only if right is relevant in this context, and it is not. A suicidal man cannot be concerned - and nor should he be - with questions of moral entitlement. (And how absurd.) His one concern should be whether self-execution will most expediently relieve his suffering.