Human Suffering Quotes
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Human Suffering Quotes & Sayings
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Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.
— Johnny Rich
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
— Daniel D. Palmer
Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.
— Peter Ackroyd
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness
— Charles R. Swindoll
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
— Hermann Hesse
Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
— Bill Hybels
Yes, we can alleviate human sufferings. Just let us be kind and caring when we see someone is suffering. — Debasish Mridha
The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.
— Fred Hollows
The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.
— Lynsey Addario
Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?
— Herta Muller
It wasn't you I was bowing to, but the whole of human suffering.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
— William Wordsworth
You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
— Saadi
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
— Susan George
Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.
— Eckhart Tolle
Jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.
— Storm Jameson
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
— Criss Jami
Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul.
— Santosh Kalwar
In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being.
— Sinclair Lewis
The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.
— Michael Sandel
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
— Michel De Montaigne
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
— Ingrid Newkirk
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf,
— Albert Sabin
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
— Sigmund Freud
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.
— Elie Wiesel
Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?
— Monty Woolley
If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
All human suffering concerns each human being
— Vaclav Havel
The thinking at the epicenter of most human conflict: I'm right; you're wrong.
— Charles F. Glassman
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.
— Jennifer Stone
The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.
— Mahnaz Afkhami
Suffering ... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.
— Michael Pollan
Throughout the world we see human suffering, anger, revenge, addictions, violence in the street, and tremendous injustice.
— Miguel Ruiz
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
— Francis Collins
I thought there were limits to human suffering. At Bir-Jdid, I was to discover that there were none
— Malika Oufkir
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
— Elie Wiesel
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.
— James G. Frazer
God's Providence and Human Suffering
— Adam Hamilton
The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.
— Morihei Ueshiba
Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.
— Rigoberto Gonzalez
The human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.
— Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
— William Penn
Be a human angel! With love, generosity and kindness, let us lighten the burden of suffering from humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
— Nick Harkaway
By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.
— Sharon Gannon
Subjecting other living things to pain, suffering, and death is the biggest fault in the human race
— Zoe Rosenberg
There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.
— Edwidge Danticat
Contemplating this vast human suffering, you might be tempted to shrug your shoulders, but you could not.
— Alexander McCall Smith
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
— Ralph Merkle
Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.
— Richard Levins
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
— Margaret Atwood
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
— John Galsworthy
We humans have a lamentable tendency to spend more time theorizing the reasons behind human suffering, than working to alleviate human suffering.
— Terryl L. Givens
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
— Abraham Maslow
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.
— Aleksander Kwasniewski
The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.
— Megan McKenna
Our top priority is to relieve suffering of human beings.
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.
— Eknath Easwaran
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
— Bobby Fischer
Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.
— Martin Amis
I love the majesty of human suffering.
— Alfred De Vigny
I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.
— Rigoberto Gonzalez
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
— Albert Camus
Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.
— Eleanor Catton
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.
— Marianne Williamson
You have to suffer in order to be a human being who can help people understand suffering.
— Nicholson Baker
Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens. — E.A. Bucchianeri
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
— James Russell Lowell
There's this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering - at least half! All women!
— Jean Giraudoux
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [ ... ]
— Gary Shteyngart
Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.
— Ray Kurzweil
It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can't expect an unhealthy person to think logically.
— Izzeldin Abuelaish
American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.
— Ira Sadoff
