Human suffering Quote by Malika Oufkir ““I thought there were limits to human suffering. At Bir-Jdid, I was to discover that there were none”” — Malika Oufkir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human suffering Nature of man
“He would welcome the opportunity to offer his suffering up to God. Me, I could not help but think that there was more than… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.” — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
“...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.” — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
“Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer.” — Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.” — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“The problem was that there was no treatment. No cure. There was nothing that...any medical professional could do. If I'd been fully human, I… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
“A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater… — Dale Breckenridge Carnegie Copy Share Image
“But I also knew that the human condition leads us to feel alive when confronted with things that we have never imagined, and even… — Laura Thomas Copy Share Image
Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware of all life's artifices. Getting dressed, wearing make-up, laughing, having fun-isn't all that just playing a role? Am I not more profound, carrying the burden of those twenty years when I 'wasn't alive', than all… — Malika Oufkir Copy Share
“I have lost years that I will never get back. Only now am I just beginning to live, on the verge of old age.… — Malika Oufkir Copy Share Image
“The scientific method is famous for requiring objectivity and emotional detachment on the part of the investigator. Scientific experimentation also involves extensive manipulation of conditions. When dealing with nature, this is fine, but with people it becomes problematic. “Being objective” can easily be taken to mean “treating people as objects,” emotional detachment can translate into indifference to human suffering, and… — Joseph Heath Copy Share
“Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 ever desired something and then didn't get it (or, worse, got it and subsequently lost it) know full well the suffering of which the Buddah spoke. Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
