The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.
~By Bill Williams ~
It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
~By Cat Stevens ~
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
~By Paul Dirac ~
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
~By Thomas Becket ~
But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.
~By Donald Cargill ~
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
~By Bodhidharma ~
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
~By Anatole France ~
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
~By Christiaan Barnard ~
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
~By Andre Malraux ~
How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.
~By Edwin Way Teale ~
Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
~By George Orwell ~
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
~By Willie Nelson ~
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.
~By Merton Miller ~
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.
~By Frank R. Wolf ~
I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
~By Layne Staley ~
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
~By Anais Nin ~
We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
~By Virgil ~
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
~By Denis Diderot ~
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
~By Tony Benn ~
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
~By Betty Friedan ~
You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.
~By Ernest Renan ~
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
~By Ben Okri ~
Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
~By Franz Kafka ~
I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
~By Donald Berwick ~
God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
~By Patrick Gordon ~
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.
~By Krzysztof Kieslowski ~
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
~By Patti Smith ~
A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
~By George C. Wallace ~
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.
~By John Conyers ~
I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
~By Will Harvey ~
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
~By Marcel Proust ~
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
~By Paul Harvey ~
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
~By George Sand ~
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
~By Christiaan Barnard ~
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
~By Layne Staley ~
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
~By Paul Tournier ~
Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
~By Paul Farmer ~
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
~By Jerzy Kosinski ~
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
~By Ted Olson ~
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
~By Madame de Stael ~
It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
~By Rainer W. Fassbinder ~
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
~By Bill Pascrell ~
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
~By William Wordsworth ~
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?
~By Arnold Wesker ~
I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.
~By Alberto Fujimori ~
From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
~By Jack Kingston ~
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
~By Arthur Helps ~
I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
~By Laura Hillenbrand ~
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
~By Bob Beauprez ~
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.
~By Jim Doyle ~
It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
~By G. I. Gurdjieff ~
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
~By Jules Renard ~
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.
~By Guy Ritchie ~
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
~By Lucy Stone ~
The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.
~By Daniel Ortega ~
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
~By Edward Everett ~
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
~By John Acton ~
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
~By Otto Dix ~
As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
~By Chinua Achebe ~
Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.
~By Liz Smith ~
I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.
~By Donald Cargill ~
Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
~By Albert Bandura ~
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
~By Robert Lynd ~
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
~By John Lubbock ~
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
~By Jane Austen ~
Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.
~By Jason Patric ~
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
~By James F. Cooper ~
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