Quotes About Suffering

When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.

If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.

I don't need a set of message board points to tell me that people are hurting in my state. I know it because I've lived it.

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning.

Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.

Those years when Poland was occupied by the Nazis was one of the darkest time in Poland's history.

I think that as president of Poland, I can speak about the suffering.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

I die a hundred deaths each day. I die when I see hungry people. Or people who're sad. I die when I know I can do nothing about pollution in Mumbai. I die when I feel helpless when my loved one is in pain.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning.

Poverty is the root of all evil.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.