Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. Read Summary
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. Read Summary
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. Read Summary
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. Read Summary
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. Read Summary
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete. Read Summary
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. Read Summary
It is by suffering that human beings become angels. Read Summary
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Read Summary
Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them. Read Summary
If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering. Read Summary
We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness. Read Summary
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. Read Summary
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. Read Summary
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. Read Summary
Not to be born is, past all prizing, best. Read Summary
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. Read Summary
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. Read Summary
Pain is never permanent. Read Summary
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. Read Summary