Facts Quote by Melchor Lim

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors.…

— Eckhart Tolle

There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as…

— Thomas Huxley

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and…

— Frederick Soddy

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

— John Green

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction.…

— Woody Allen

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know…

— Simone Weil

A human life is a schoolingAlthough the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. for eternity.

— Gottfried Keller

In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource…

— Kofi Annan

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the…

— Luther Burbank

But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over…

— Jared Diamond

As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.

— Betty Smith