World Suffering Quotations | Page 2

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them--as many as there are people--because each person perceives the world in his or her own way; each lives in his or her own world. Sometimes they connect, for a moment, or more rarely, for a lifetime, but mostly we are alone, each living in our own world, suffering our small deaths.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.