Human Suffering Quotes

Human Suffering Quote of the day

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

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 sorrow.

What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very "pain of God".

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 for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

I love the majesty of human suffering.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

All human suffering concerns each human being.

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering.

Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —” “THEN — I — DON’T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!” Harry roared.

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably havent read them.

You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.

I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid

I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.

Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.

This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.

Both glory and dominion last forever but glory is for God and dominion is for mankind.