Buddha Quotes

You know the Scripture says "be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap." And one day, I don't know how they're going to get it, but they're going to get some of it back. They are scared to death and are more afraid now than we are.

When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

I guess karma comes back around 'cause now I'm the one that's hurting

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.

The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

To have lied is to have suffered.

As we sin, so do we suffer

The fool learns by suffering.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the market.

And so, irritants, it is with this that I leave you. You are spared so that you can think of what it really is to live in a world that engenders a pain for which there is no comfort. Here is your product! You have the rest of your lives to think of this. And I suggest you think quickly, for a long life is never a guarantee.