Life Pain Quotes

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Often, everywhere we look, we seem to find obstacles and facades and smokescreens, so it was really nice to find things in the world that actually spoke to me. And I felt like Eastern thought really spoke to me. Because it isn't trying to cover up the pain in life; it's trying to deal with it and overcome it in an intelligent way. I think the reason I love Eastern thought so much, and mysticism in general - but especially Buddhism - is because it seems to me an attempt to look life squarely in the face, as it is.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

You make a joke out of everything. Life’s too painful not to.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

No one can escape life's pain. That's life.

What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of Self. It is a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life.

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.