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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.

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

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Albert Schweitzer
Pain, Privilege, Lord
Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.66, Open Road Media

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Albert Schweitzer
Sad, Pain, Suicidal
On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Ch. 5

No one may shut his eyes to think the pain, which is therefore not visible to him, is non-existent.

Albert Schweitzer
Pain, Eye, Animal

The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.

Albert Schweitzer
Pain, Eye, Responsibility

The fellowship of those who bear the mark of pain: who are the members of this Fellowship? Those who have learnt by experience what physical pain and bodily anguish mean, belong together all the world over; they are united by a secret bond.

Albert Schweitzer
Pain, Mean, Secret
Albert Schweitzer, Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities (1998). “The Primeval Forest”, p.128, JHU Press

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

Albert Schweitzer
Pain, Lying, World
Albert Schweitzer (2014). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography”, p.244, Henry Holt and Company

The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life.

Albert Schweitzer
Nature, Pain, Fate

Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.

Albert Schweitzer
Life, Pain, Long

But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to be honest. The critical study of the life of Jesus has been for theology a school of honesty. The world had never seen before, and will never see again, a struggle for truth so full of pain and renunciation as that of which the Lives of Jesus of the last hundred years contain the cryptic record.

Albert Schweitzer
Jesus, Honesty, Pain

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

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