A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating.
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.
Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.
There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.
No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
The unfed mind devours itself.
… the most uncouth … mental torture
The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.
Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.
The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
