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Meanings of human suffering in English

Big pain.

Usage of human suffering in English
1
We live in a world of violence, human suffering, and environmental destruction.
The Power of Giving
2
The sense of human suffering comes in our day to full realization.
The Chief End of Man
3
He seemed never before to have realised the infinitude of human suffering.
The Whirlpool
4
I am not so selfish as to be indifferent to human suffering.
Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures
5
It is, as he argues, human suffering stretched to its utmost endurance.
Charles Lamb: A Memoir
6
And are you too great an enchanter ever to feel human suffering?
The Junior Classics, Volume 1: Fairy and wonder tales
7
Why, it's an outrage on personal dignity, a mockery of human suffering!
The Schoolmaster and Other Stories
8
He had a premonition of a bottomless evil, sneering at human suffering.
RING
9
Terrorism causes enormous human suffering, and in itself can lead to psychiatric consequences.
The Guardian
10
It remains the engine room of so much human suffering and arrested development.
The Guardian
11
The scene which followed has no parallel in the records of human suffering.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
12
He could hear the mournful cries of human suffering echoing across the water.
Inferno
13
It was an endless stream of human suffering whatever day of the year.
A good woman
14
Behind those tragic numbers are daily stories of untold pain and human suffering.
Jamaica Observer
15
This is at once the noblest and the most pathetic of human suffering.
The Blazed Trail
16
The Asiatic is a cruel beast, and delights in spectacles of human suffering.
The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
This collocation consists of:
Human suffering through the time
Human suffering across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common