Suffering Quotes

Virtuous people always let go. They don't prattle about pleasures and desires. Touched by happiness and then by suffering, The sage shows no sign of being elated or depressed.

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering, full of tribulation. This one should wisely understand, one should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

To live in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible. We must free ourselves from life, from all possible life.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

Attachment leads to suffering.

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

We have enough objects of charity at home, and it is our duty to take care of our own poor, and our own suffering, before we go abroad to intermeddle with other people's business.

Suffering is the essence of success!

Friends, there is one thing I have realized, there is no victory in causing suffering. Triumph is a peaceful kingdom.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it.

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

Grief makes one hour ten.

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.