Browsing Topic Best Suffering Of Others Quotes

I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet ‘for sale’, who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence – briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing – cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.

He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

… scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That’s why I find war so hard to bear. It’s the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I’m causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It’s a physical pain. So it’s self-interest that I don’t want to cause harm.

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. … To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.

one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry.

It’s through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

… we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It’s that simple.

The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is natural. But by struggling to overcome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life and develop the compassion to share the sufferings of others as our own.

The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

Compassion allows us to accept everything. That’s why there’s always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and children. How can arms manufacturers, weapons designers, plant managers, politicians, who have families of their own whom they love, be so insensitive when it comes to the suffering of other human beings?

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

Being involved with Oxfam has really opened my eyes to the world at large and the suffering of others. But my background and my life experience are what have allowed me to understand how interconnected we all are. I believe one person suffering reverberates throughout the world.

Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

I will never be ok with the suffering of others – that I will likely continue to fight so I must treat it as a marathon race not a sprint.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

One’s own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.