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Quotes About Suffering

War is a defeat for humanity.
~ Pope John Paul II
Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.
~ Jane Goodall
I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.
~ Yip Harburg
I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
~ Edward Bond
Humanity is the sin of God
~ Theodore Parker
The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.
~ John Townsend
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Human kind cannot bear much reality.
~ T. S. Eliot
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.
~ Richard Levins
If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
~ David Gemmell
It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.
~ Pope Francis
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
~ William Arthur Ward
Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.
~ Deepak Chopra
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)
~ Elie Wiesel, Night
Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.
~ Dalai Lama
Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.
~ Tom Morello
Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley