#suffering

The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks around you suffer and, no matter what happens to you, no matter how lucky or unlucky you are, they keep suffering. And if you can do something about that, then you do it, and you do it without whining or waving your own fuckin' cross for the world to see. You do it because it's the right thing to do. ↗

— John Connolly

#suffer #suffering #nature

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#perversion #security #suffering #nature

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#suffering #religion

A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering. ↗

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

#savages #suffering-life #art

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#tears #christianity

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside. ↗

— John Lennon

#emotions #hypocrisy #pain #suffering #emotion

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt. ↗

— Jack London

#suffering #weak #weakness #london

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. ↗

— John Milton

#integrity #patience #suffering #wisdom #integrity

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#healing #suffering #healing

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#suffering #holocaust