“Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering. — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
“Sorrow is an inseparable dimension of our human experience. We suffer after a loss because we are human. And in our suffering,… — Alan D. Wolfelt Copy Share Image
“The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.” — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success. — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“I had to wonder what sadistic pleasure and entertainment human suffering must provide to the divine game players who decided the fate… — Clyde Dsouza Copy Share Image
We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
“When we psychologize human suffering, we narrow our focus to the individual—perhaps in order to be less overwhelmed by the sheer enormity… — Miriam Greenspan Copy Share Image
From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“Behind all sorrows in the world Klepp saw a ravenous hunger; all human suffering, he believed, could be cured with a portion… — Günter Grass Copy Share Image
It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“The question was whether an ape which was being used to develop a poliomyelitis serum, and for this reason punctured again and… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the… — Michael Copperman Copy Share Image
“I sing of those who cannot. To view human suffering as an abstraction, as a statement about how plucky we all are,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. The only God I believe in is the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“The question haunts me still, and will, I suppose, until I join my parents in our final reunion. If the doctor had… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“It is easy to blame television or the movies or rap music for desensitizing our children to human suffering, to violence, and… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change… — Susan George Copy Share Image
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering. — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
“Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Yet her father had taught her that failing to act in the face of human suffering is inhuman.” — Corban Addison Copy Share Image
The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
'Sons of the Prophet' is a dark comedy about human suffering. The play explores the particularly messy portions of life - the… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
