Suffering Quotes

"The root of suffering is attachment." "There are two kinds of pain in this world. The pain that hurts, the pain that alters." "The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for." "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man" "I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering." "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy" "We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love." "The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder" "Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact." "People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." "When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help." "What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart." "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." "The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive." "Suffering is civilization" "The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers." "Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering" "The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people." "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer."