“If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering. — Jeremy Gilley Copy Share Image
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
“Seeing the body as matter and mechanism is the flip side to easing the most profound human suffering.” — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering. — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
“Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering. — Sean Strub Copy Share Image
Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness. — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.” — Ira Sadoff 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
How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the… — Julius Gordon Copy Share Image
The most unbearable moment in my life is when I see someone in pain. Nothing is worst than watching human suffering and… — Chanda Kaushik 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
There is no denying that the interventionist wars in Iraq and Libya that were propagated as necessary to relieve human suffering actually… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“The scientific method is famous for requiring objectivity and emotional detachment on the part of the investigator. Scientific experimentation also involves extensive… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“Putting an end to foreign aid is impractical and would likely lead to additional human suffering. It is impractical because citizens of… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“In addition to the human suffering that comes with the current way of working, the opportunity cost of the value that we… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“Whoever, through too great love, which is monstrous after all, dies of his misery, is born again to know neither love nor… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to come crashing… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Suffering is not God’s desire for us, but it occurs in the process of life. Suffering is not given to teach us… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I realized that more and more I was saying, 'It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
“Besides being blind to lots of good things, the GDP also benefits from all manner of human suffering. Gridlock, drug abuse, adultery?… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“If the theory of numbers could be employed for any practical and obviously honourable purpose, if it could be turned directly to… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I believe anymore. If God does exist, then He's just an asshole, creating this world full of human… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan. — Eric Reeves Copy Share Image