(1293 quotes found)
“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”
Oscar Wilde
“Life is suffering.”
Buddha
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
“Christianity makes suffering contagious”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”
Gao Xingjian
“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Kahlil Gibran
“The heart was made to be broken”
“I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.”
“I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultiv”
Dalai Lama