Top 100 Mental Suffering Quotes
#1. One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#2. Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.
Frederick Lenz
#3. Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.
Hope Mirrlees
#4. It referred to intense mental suffering, deep remorse, extreme anguish, acute sorrow and the like.
Don DeLillo
#5. Actually the best way to relieve your mental suffering is to sit in zazen, even in such a confused state of mind and bad posture.
Shunryu Suzuki
#6. Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.
Dalai Lama
#7. Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
Dalai Lama
#8. The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.
Michael Leunig
#9. Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did while rendering my heart strings, you thought you were only uprooting your bad propensities.
Charlotte Bronte
#10. The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Karl Marx
#11. There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.
Karl Marx
#12. The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering
Dalai Lama
#13. One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.
Erich Fromm
#14. The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.
Stephen Richards
#15. He had been diagnosed as suffering from atypical schizophrenia. Lord, how he hated that awful-sounding label. It conjured up visions of some deranged maniac escaped from a secure mental hospital.
Etienne De L'Amour
#16. It takes all my strength to do daily tasks. To some people, I'm just a number. I'm a projected food stamps debit card lifetime member. I'm seen as crazy or insane, but it doesn't matter. I know I am bigger than my suffering.
Jacquelyn Nicole Davis
#17. The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.
William Styron
#18. If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#19. If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
Stephen Richards
#20. The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#21. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.
Stephen Richards
#23. The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.
Stephen Richards
#24. Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
Lysette Anthony
#25. The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.
Stephen Richards
#27. We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.
Marianne Williamson
#29. One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.
Martin Seligman
#30. Our lesson for today, boys and girls, is the more things change, the more things change. Whoever said the more things change the more things stay the same was obviously suffering severe mental retardation.
Stephen King
#31. The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent.
Maya Forbes
#32. The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.
Stephen Richards
#33. Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.
Stephen Richards
#34. On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of human existence were not abstractions: they were embodied in human suffering
Frank X. Barron
#35. In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.
Stephen Richards
#36. The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
James Allen
#37. Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.
Stephen Richards
#38. Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.
Greg Jackson
#39. When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.
Stephen Richards
#40. Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#41. [On her wearing pants:] The greatest sorrows from which women suffer today are those physical, moral and mental ones, that are caused by their unhygienic manner of dressing! The want of the ballot is but a toy by comparison.
Mary Edwards Walker
#42. The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.
Stephen Richards
#43. Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.
Stephen Richards
#44. In accepting that suffering is a part of your daily existence, you could begin by examining the factors that normally give rise of feelings of discontent and mental unhappiness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#45. Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
Stefan Molyneux
#46. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
Stephen Richards
#47. The world is full of victims; don't add to the growing culture of "I've a story to tell", well not unless it's a story to help others overcome situations or as a warning.
Stephen Richards
#48. But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.
Katie Kacvinsky
#49. Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
Stephen Richards
#50. I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#51. Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.
Stephen Richards
#52. As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
Stephen Richards
#53. Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
Alvin Toffler
#54. However, if we can transform our attitude towards suffering, adopt an attitude that allows us greater tolerance of it, then this can do much to help counteract feelings of mental unhappiness, dissatisfaction, and discontent.
Dalai Lama XIV
#55. When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.
Stephen Richards
#56. Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as all the therapists tell us, but they do not obey some great unseen timetable.
Bel Mooney
#57. This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness
Charles R. Swindoll
#58. Nobody wins when the police are sent to look after people suffering from mental health problems; vulnerable people don't get the care they need and deserve, and the police can't get on with the job they are trained to do.
Theresa May
#59. How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
Catharine Beecher
#60. All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.
Stephen Richards
#61. When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.
Stephen Richards
#62. By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU.
Stephen Richards
#63. In any case, when we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. It is for this reason that in chronic mental illness we stop growing, we become stuck. And without healing, the human spirit begins to shrivel.
M. Scott Peck
#64. Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.
Eckhart Tolle
#65. Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
Stephen Richards
#66. We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!
Stephen Richards
#67. Happiness and suffering, however extreme, are mental events. The mind depends upon the body, and the body upon the world, but everything good or bad that happens in your life must appear in consciousness to matter.
Sam Harris
#68. The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way.
Stephen Richards
#69. You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.
Stephen Richards
#70. Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.
Nathaniel Branden
#71. I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.
David Feherty
#72. Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.
Stephen Richards
#73. I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people and sometimes to me too.
John Ashbery
#74. It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments
Franz Beckenbauer
#75. Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions.
Stephen Richards
#76. To some extent, sanity is a form of conformity. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering. But it's really not so simple. I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also.
John F. Nash
#77. Moreover, the genuine lover always respects and even encourages this separateness and the unique individuality of the beloved. Failure to perceive and respect this separateness is extremely common, however, and the cause of much mental illness and unnecessary suffering.
M. Scott Peck
#78. Due to the need to co-exist with these inhuman and inconsiderate people, we will obviously be disturbed by their acts; something which if we look at closely actually means that we too could be affecting some other people negatively every once in a while.
Stephen Richards
#79. Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.
Alan W. Watts
#80. The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.
Stephen Richards
#81. The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#82. We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.
Dorianne Laux
#83. Certain empty houses that seemed to stare like the faces of people suffering from terrible mental illness. An empty barn on the outskirts of town, the hayloft door swinging open and closed on rusty hinges, first disclosing darkness, then hiding it, then disclosing it again.
Stephen King
#84. Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word 'give' is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein.
Stephen Richards
#85. Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.
Stephen Richards
#86. Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.
Stephen Richards
#87. Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#88. animals with more mental flexibility typically possess more complex sensory and nervous systems, suggesting that they are the most likely to have the neural hardware that underlies suffering.
Virginia Morell
#89. Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.
Ayya Khema
#90. The right place for a person suffering a mental health crisis is a bed, not a police cell. And the right people to look after them are medically trained professionals, not police officers.
Theresa May
#91. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown
#92. A broken and mended relationship turns out to be stronger than one that has never been broken, almost like how bones can become even stronger once broken and then healed.
Stephen Richards
#93. Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.
Stephen Richards
#94. The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.
Stephen Richards
#95. This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.
Stephen Richards
#96. When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#98. To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we create by our thoughts about the pain. Fear, anger, guilt, loneliness and helplessness are all mental and emotional responses that can intensify pain.
Howard Cutler
#99. All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you.
V.C. Andrews
#100. Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning.
Stephen Richards
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