David Hume Quotes

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

The wretched reflect either too much or too little.

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...]

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

Misery is the River of the World

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

Suffering is overated.

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

Misery is wasted on the miserable.

No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

Misery generates hate.

Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.

If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible.