Quotes About Suffering

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

That all-too-common gap - between where the doctors, facilities and resources are based and where the individuals suffering from HIV live - had to be closed. This is what the Health Extension Program (HEP) was created to do.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

I do have a place in my heart for animal shelters because the job they have is impossible - so many animals that need to euthanized because don't have homes for them.

Justice is horrible.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience.

Human beings are interested in the human condition.

Human suffering is not, nor should it ever be, a political issue.

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.

Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.

It's an awful feeling, being hungry.

Buddhist teachings suggest that when we find the thing that keeps us from appreciating the present, the thing that keeps us from trusting, the very thing that causes us suffering, it is a gate to freedom, to awakening.

do not turn anything Into something longed for, For then it's dreadful to lose.

The gift of Dharma surpasses all gifts. The taste of Dharma surpasses all tastes. The delight in Dharma surpasses all delights. The destruction of craving conquers all suffering.