The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.
We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.
But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.
Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
In the end, life makes victims of us all.
Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.
Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
