Human suffering Quote by C.M. Curtis

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

— Joseph Heath

“Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.”

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

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

“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…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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