Albert Schweitzer Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

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  We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fighting, Compassion, Animal

• Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Philosophical, Animal, Thinking

• There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Suffering And Death, Vegetarian, Vegan

  Albert Schweitzer, Steven E. G. Melamed (2003). “The African Sermons”, p.20, Syracuse University Press

• It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Pet, Suffering

• He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Wise, Time, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2010). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.401, Lulu.com

• You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sleep, Loss, Zest

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.80, Ardent Media

• Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Pain, Lying, Hard Times

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.11, Open Road Media

• I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Ambition, Past

• Your soul suffers if you live superficially.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Soul, Suffering, Your Soul

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.80, Ardent Media

• One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Strong, Truth

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First Century”, p.26, Open Road Media

• We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Loneliness, Often Is

• I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with
  a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Horse, Pain, Animal

• We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Jesus, Heart, Animal

• Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Effort, Joy

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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