Quotes about Suffering
They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
— Martin Luther
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
— Pope John Paul II
The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.
— Pope John Paul II
War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.
— Rick Warren
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
— Samuel Johnson
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
It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood.
— Pope Francis