From Bertrand Russell’s Autobiography: What I Have Lived For. Part II.
-----'Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.... Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.'-----