Human Suffering Quotes

64 Human Suffering quotes by 56 unique authors

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to… — Nick Flynn
I didnâ€™t create poverty. This church didnâ€™t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there… — Peter Akinola
It should be remembered that hundreds of people of African ancestry also walked the Trail of Tears with the Cherokee during the forced removal of… — Wilma Mankiller
The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one… — Nelson Mandela
It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid — Robert Gibbs
To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout human history. To… — David Hawkins
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of… — Velupillai Prabhakaran
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success. — Tom Harkin
We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the… — Shigeru Yoshida
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering. — Marianne Williamson
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. — William Wordsworth
Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the… — Albert Camus
Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering. — Aleksander Kwasniewski
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. — Antonio Porchia
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering. — Ralph Merkle
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through… — Dada Vaswani
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the… — James Joyce
Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal… — Louis C. K.
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A… — Albert Camus

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