It is commendable to wish to relieve human suffering, but…

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on…

— Anonymous

Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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

After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the transcendent and…

— Andre Dubus

In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian abuses of…

— Peter Maurer

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial…

— C. S. Lewis

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua…

— John Negroponte

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided,…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Vast populations in parasitic hot zones are without hospitals, doctors, drugs, or surgical equipment. Meanwhile, often directed at the very same underserved regions, wealthy…

— Kathleen McAuliffe

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the…

— Pope John Paul II

“The Buddha taught that all human suffering is rooted in desire. Don't we all know this to be true? Any of us who have…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are…

— Octave Mirbeau

“Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.”

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

“The scientific method is famous for requiring objectivity and emotional detachment on the part of the investigator. Scientific experimentation also involves extensive manipulation of…

— Joseph Heath