Quotes About Dukkha

#1. the word that the Buddha used for suffering, dukkha, actually has the more subtle meaning of "pervasive unsatisfactoriness," I was even more impressed. "Suffering" always sounded a bit melodramatic, even if a careful reading of history seemed to support it. "Pervasive unsatisfactoriness

Mark Epstein

#2. People in the midst of losing their patience are certainly experiencing as aspect of dukkha.

Allan Lokos

#3. Even when people aren't suffering from illness or aging, our unfulfilled cravings and the cessation of temporary pleasures, as well as the dissonance between our expectations and reality, lead to dukkha.

Sara Wilson

#4. Siddhartha Gautama said that "life has dissatisfaction" (dukkha). He didn't say that "life is suffering and nothing but suffering" - only that we all suffer in larger or smaller ways.

Doug Kraft

#5. In Buddhism we also interprete Dharma to mean 'cessation,' as in the end of dissatisfaction, the end of dukkha. This is the purpose of Buddha's teachings.

David Michie

#6. If she thought she'd seen his eyes burn before, it was nothing compared to what they were doing now. Frost had never been so hot.

J.R. Ward

#7. I am the 'Cosmic Dancer' who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on 'Electric Warrior.' I'm not frightened to get up there and groove about in front of six million people on TV because it doesn't look cool. That's the way I would do it at home.

Marc Bolan

#8. It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us. - Tilopa

Lama Surya Das

#9. Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness

Stephenie Meyer

#10. I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

James Monroe

#11. I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

Theodore Bikel

#12. I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn't it?

Agatha Christie

#13. One day you will be the one called Master (Naruto). You'll be the one to treat others to ramen. We can't stay kids forever.
- Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)

Masashi Kishimoto