Suffering Quotes

We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present.

The act is the blossom of thought, and joy and suffering are its fruits.

All suffering is caused by ignorance.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

We don’t let animals suffer, so why humans?

I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It’s true that fretting never did any good.