Distress Quote by Anonymous

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

— Bernie Siegel

People die because they find living too painful.

— Malcolm Fraser

“When pain is vivid, when decisions are keen-edged, we believe that we are the surgeons. But time passes, and one sees the whole more…

— David Mitchell

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

— Robert Winston

It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.

— Norman Barrett

The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain…

— Philip Yancey

“There is too much pain in the world,in all shapes and forms.That is what these people represent.Pain from losing their homes,the death of a…

— Esther Verhoef

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

— Ernest L. Boyer

“Indeed, the most intense feeling we know of, intense to the point of blotting out all other experiences, namely, the experience of great bodily…

— Hannah Arendt

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job:…

— Anne Lamott

“And this is what’s so dangerous about a society that coddles itself more and more from the inevitable discomforts of life: we lose the…

— Mark Manson

“Psychologically, nothing is darker or more menacing, or harder to accept, than the participation of physicians in mass murder. However technicized or commercial the…

— Robert Jay Lifton