Human suffering Quote by Alfred de Vigny Download Open image “I love the majesty of human suffering.” — Alfred de Vigny ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human suffering Humans Majesty Nature of man Suffering
Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight, some charm… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“the suffering experienced here on earth is but for a moment, and it pales in comparison to the glory which will be revealed.” — Cassandra Baker-Durham Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature,… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but,… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral justification of their crimes. These are the theories of well-meaning children who see everything in black or white, dream of nothing but angels or demons,… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted. — Alfred de Vigny 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 manipulation of conditions. When dealing with nature, this is fine, but with people it becomes problematic. “Being objective” can easily be taken to mean “treating people as objects,” emotional detachment can translate into indifference to human suffering, and… — Joseph Heath Copy Share
“Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
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 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 who have ever desired something and then didn't get it (or, worse, got it and subsequently lost it) know full well the suffering of which the Buddah spoke. Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
“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 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 be avoided,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 abuses of… — Peter Maurer 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 transcendent and… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
