Suffering Life Quotes

The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.' All organic life is struck by the arrows of real and psychic poisons. This is understood by any true, that is to say, not self-deluding, spiritual path.

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?

Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.