--- title: "4 Affliction Quotes By Gautama Buddha" description: "4 Affliction quotes by Gautama Buddha. Plus more from Gautama Buddha and more Affliction sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e30/gautama-buddha-163_action_if-there-is-no-other-world-and-there-is_1144159.jpg" --- > [If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/if-there-is-no-other-world-and-there-is-no-fruit-and-ripening-of/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e30/gautama-buddha-163_action_if-there-is-no-other-world-and-there-is_1144159.jpg) > [The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/the-poisonous-serpent-of-afflictions-is-sleeping-in-your-mind-just-as/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/gautama-buddha-163_affliction_the-poisonous-serpent-of-afflictions-is_1905297.jpg) > [Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/inflamed-by-greed-incensed-by-hate-confused-by-delusion-overcome-by/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e1/gautama-buddha-163_affliction_inflamed-by-greed-incensed-by-hate-confu_2546627.jpg) > [Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/solitude-is-happiness-for-one-who-is-content-who-has-heard-the-dhamma/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f74/gautama-buddha-163_affliction_solitude-is-happiness-for-one-who-is-con_3035620.jpg) ## Other authors on Affliction - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-spurgeon-22605.jpg) Charles Spurgeon 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affliction/charles-spurgeon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-samuel-rutherford-82856.jpg) Samuel Rutherford 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affliction/samuel-rutherford/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-simone-weil-85539.jpg) Simone Weil 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affliction/simone-weil/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b002/author-thomas-watson-4209.jpg) Thomas Watson 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affliction/thomas-watson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affliction/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-flavel-51381.jpg) John Flavel 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affliction/john-flavel/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-sibbes-78904.jpg) Richard Sibbes 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affliction/richard-sibbes/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-brooks-90249.jpg) Thomas Brooks 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affliction/thomas-brooks/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joseph-hall-53365.jpg) Joseph Hall 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affliction/joseph-hall/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joseph-addison-53245.jpg) Joseph Addison 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affliction/joseph-addison/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-john-wesley-52488.jpg) John Wesley 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affliction/john-wesley/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jeremiah-burroughs-48869.jpg) Jeremiah Burroughs 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affliction/jeremiah-burroughs/) ## More by Gautama Buddha > [Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/before-you-ve-seen-it-and-when-you-first-see-it-it-is-the-greatest/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/one-of-his-students-asked-buddha-are-you-the-messiah-no-answered/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Give thanks for what had been given to you, However little. Be pure, never falter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/give-thanks-for-what-had-been-given-to-you-however-little-be-pure/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/for-fear-of-causing-terror-to-living-beings-mahamati-let-the/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/be-lamps-unto-yourselves-be-refuges-unto-yourselves-take-yourself-no/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/speak-only-the-speech-that-neither-torments-self-nor-does-harm-to/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Pain is the outcome of sin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/pain-is-the-outcome-of-sin/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/it-is-because-i-perceive-the-danger-in-the-practice-of-mystic-wonders/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/so-too-monks-i-saw-the-ancient-path-the-ancient-road-traveled-by-the/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/if-one-is-the-master-of-oneself-one-is-the-resort-one-can-depend-on/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/watch-the-thought-and-its-ways-with-care-and-let-it-spring-from-love/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/one-is-not-low-because-of-birth-nor-does-birth-make-one-holy-deeds/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/he-who-causes-suffering-shall-suffer-there-is-no-escape/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/if-a-person-does-not-harm-any-living-being-and-does-not-kill-or-cause/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) > [The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/the-fool-says-these-are-my-sons-this-is-my-land-this-is-my-money-in/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affliction/gautama-buddha/#itemlist", "name": "4 Affliction Quotes By Gautama Buddha", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gautama Buddha" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/if-there-is-no-other-world-and-there-is-no-fruit-and-ripening-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e30/gautama-buddha-163_action_if-there-is-no-other-world-and-there-is_1144159.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e30/gautama-buddha-163_action_if-there-is-no-other-world-and-there-is_1144159.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e30/gautama-buddha-163_action_if-there-is-no-other-world-and-there-is_1144159.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here…” — Gautama Buddha", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. 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