Quotes about Suffering
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
— Paul Ricoeur
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.
— William Hazlitt
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
War is a defeat for humanity.
— Pope John Paul II
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
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.
— Elie Wiesel
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
— Victor Hugo
A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.
— Martin Luther