Contrast Quote by Ernest Dimnet

Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of us also…

— Christopher Morley

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

— Saadi

We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try…

— Gary Snyder

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

— William James

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine…

— Albert Einstein

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really…

— Bill Ayers

Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive…

— Lawrence Anthony

“When we psychologize human suffering, we narrow our focus to the individual—perhaps in order to be less overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of human…

— Miriam Greenspan

The essence of being human is to live for the sake of others.

— Senoraroy

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would…

— Dean Koontz

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

— Craig Kilborn

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

— David Lynch