One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering.

When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.

Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

I feel like I look 16 sometimes, which is a bummer, because I would love to date older guys.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

“This demonstrated to me that those who regard universal suffrage as a guarantee for good choices are under a complete illusion. Universal suffrage has other advantages, but not that one.”

“Those who suffer most cry out the least.”

“The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.”

“Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did and never can carry us beyond our own persons, and it is by the imagination only that we form any conception of what are his sensations...His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have this adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels.”

"We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope."

You can't lead a true life without suffering