Civilisations Quote by Business and Leadership Publishing

“...inasmuch as every man takes the sufferings that fall to his share as the greatest.”

— Hermann Hesse

“The only person in history who did not deserve to suffer, suffered most.”

— John Piper

“all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged,…

— George Saunders

“That there should be so great a concentration of vitality, so large a world contained within the mind of a single man, must in…

— Victor Hugo

“These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered…

— Plutarch

“Suffering is the common lot of man.”

— Theresa Breslin

“all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged,…

— George Saunders

“And in reading, I discovered that the burden of living is the uneven and unlimited allotment of pain. Tragedy is conferred randomly and unfairly.…

— Nina Sankovitch

“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,”

— John Dos Passos

“When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another no longer bothers us, nor moves us…

— Megan McKenna

“Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.”

— Eleanor Catton

“To have suffered so much in a certain direction that the suffering is finished, and only its particular wisdom remains, enables one, wherever that…

— James Allen