Life Suffering Quotes

Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

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.

The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.' All organic life is struck by the arrows of real and psychic poisons. This is understood by any true, that is to say, not self-deluding, spiritual path.

I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

Ah, why Should life all labour be?

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.