Human suffering Quotes

You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.

— Zana Briski

I love the majesty of human suffering.

— Alfred de Vigny

“It wasn't you I was bowing to, but the whole of human suffering.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance…

— John Calvin

“Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.”

— Stefan Molyneux

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

— Richard Levins

I believe that love is the main cause of all human suffering

— Aruho Marwin Machiaveli

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

— Jeremy Gilley

“Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.”

— Sam Harris

In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering.

— Sean Strub

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

— Bill Hybels

“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.”

— Ira Sadoff

“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

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good…

— Margaret Atwood

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been…

— Francis Collins

“Seeing the body as matter and mechanism is the flip side to easing the most profound human suffering.”

— Paul Kalanithi

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand…

— Marianne Williamson

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before…

— George H. Smith

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late…

— Shigeru Yoshida

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

— C. S. Lewis

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the…

— Julius Gordon

The most unbearable moment in my life is when I see someone in pain. Nothing is worst than watching human suffering and…

— Chanda Kaushik

“He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that…

— Diane Setterfield

“Whoever, through too great love, which is monstrous after all, dies of his misery, is born again to know neither love nor…

— Henry Miller

Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a…

— Rob Bell

One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest…

— Sam Harris

“In our confusion, we're accustomed to according the titles of good news and "a positive message" to the most soul-sucking, sentimental fare…

— David Dark

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

— Joseph Heath

“Putting an end to foreign aid is impractical and would likely lead to additional human suffering. It is impractical because citizens of…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“In addition to the human suffering that comes with the current way of working, the opportunity cost of the value that we…

— Gene Kim

“Behind all sorrows in the world Klepp saw a ravenous hunger; all human suffering, he believed, could be cured with a portion…

— Günter Grass

“The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick…

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to come crashing…

— Henry Miller

“Certainly human culture may have achieved great progress in the course of history. Suffering and unhappiness in the human world, however, do…

— Zenkei Shibayama

“A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel…

— Martin Amis

“Perhaps the greatest strike against philosophical pessimism is that its only theme is human suffering. This is the last item on the…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not…

— Albert Camus

“Today, in a staggeringly complex and diverse world, the overarching biblical narrative that includes creation, fall, redemption and fulfillment has frequently been…

— Mark Labberton