Alas Quote by John Brown

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

— William Penn

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

— Hirohito

The physician treats, but nature heals.

— Hippocrates

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

— Susan Sontag

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their…

— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

— Ada Leverson

My son is living proof that those like him can not only be treated, but can live lives free of the pain that plagued…

— David Sheff

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

— Samuel Johnson

The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood.

— Aeschylus

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

— P. T. Barnum

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

— Mahmoud Darwish