Endless Suffering Quotes

#1. In the beauty of countless danseuse in my palace, I saw an endless suffering in the form of distorted and diseased figures as the absolute certainty towards which they were heading even as insects unwittingly consign themselves to the blazing flame.

Ajit Kumar Jha

#2. Love and kindness are most precious where there is endless suffering.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#4. He asked me not to kill myself - asked, not told. His wife had done that, he told me, and it was in a sense the ultimate act of selfishness since it left behind untold and endless suffering for those who had witnessed it and been unable to do anything to prevent it. And so I remained alive.

Mary Balogh

#5. Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.

Bryant McGill

#6. We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

Queen Victoria

#7. It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

Meridel Le Sueur

#8. Try to change the world one suffering heart at a time with your endless kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#9. For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

Wendell Berry

#10. The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

Qin Shi Huang

#11. When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.

Frederick Lenz

#12. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

J.B. Priestley

#13. Only the sacrifice of an innocent god could justify the endless and universal torture of innocence. Only the most abject suffering by God could assuage man's agony."208 Berger sees the brilliance of

Timothy J. Keller

#14. The arrival of Ade Akinbiyi gave everyone a lift. He's a natural born goalscorer.

Trevor Francis

#15. Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.

Frederick Lenz

#16. I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

Andy Murray

#17. Since this is a hard and sad truth for the telling; those whom nature has sacrificed to her ends
her mysterious ends that often lie hidden
are sometimes endowed with a vast will to loving, with an endless capacity for suffering also, which must go hand in hand with their love. p 146

Radclyffe Hall

#18. Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.

Sam Trammell

#19. Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. He saw people living for their sake, saw them achieving endless things for their sake, traveling, waging wars, suffering endlessly, enduring endlessly, and he could love them for that;

Hermann Hesse

#21. [T]o teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

Roger Scruton

#22. February dawn
frost on the path Where I paced all winter.

Jack Kerouac

#23. In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition of sameness.

Michel Houellebecq

#24. He carried so much suffering that it radiated out in waves. Sorrow is like that: whenever a person runs, it comes after him; it leaves an endless trail of pain.

Alice Hoffman

#25. I we are looking for God or an opportunity to learn and enrich our lives in every situation, we will find that, but if we are looking for how am I enjoying or suffering, we are subject to endless frustration

Radhanath Swami

#26. Many researchers do feel that humankind may have to face another Great Cleansing, such as the Great Flood of world mythology. Again, numerous UFO contactees and abductees feel that it is their mission to alert their fellow humans that some kind of apocalypse will soon be visited upon Earth.

Brad Steiger

#27. Take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you scew everything up the next time. And that repetition of suffering - that's hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understand - there's where you'll find heaven.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#28. The old man began to lose heart at this endless return of chains, this rebirth of shackles, this proliferation of suffering, which the more resigned began to accept as proof of the uselessness of all revolt (171-172).

Alejo Carpentier

#29. 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.

Pema Chodron

#30. Life's pressure is equal to your resistance. Your grief has endless time. Your sadness is bottomless. Your worries are relentless. Your resentment is unquenchable. Your fears are unmovable. Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

Bryant McGill

#31. A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

David A. Bednar