Suffering Of Others Quotes - Page 2

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

  Geoffrey Wood

  Matter, Heal, Ifs

  Geoffrey Wood (2011). “Leaper: The Misadventures of a Not-Necessarily-Super Hero”, WaterBrook

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• I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

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• I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.

  Anais Nin

  Blow, Miracle, Wish

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• The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Motivational, Philosophy, Happy Life

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 1, 2012.

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Christian, Bears, Fortitude

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

  George C. Wallace

  People, Littles, Accidents

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• To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.

  John Austin Baker

  Heart, Imagination, Mind

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• The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Buddhist, Mean

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• No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.

  Marianne Williamson

  Enlightenment, Needs, Addresses

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

  Anna Funder

  Pain, Doe, Remember

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

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Hardship

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

  Meher Baba

  Happiness, Vegetarian, Christianity

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated this way: when two men suddenly see a child about to fall into a well, they all have a feeling of alarm and distress, not to gain friendship with the child's parents, nor to seek the praise of their neighbors and friends. From such a case, we see that a man without the feeling of commiseration is not a man. The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity.

  Mencius

  Children, Fall, Men

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• 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.

  Derrick Jensen

  Simple, Want, Corporations

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

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Imagination, Moral, Small Things

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• As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.

  Eugene B. Sledge

  War, Compassion, Sea

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• There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.

  Teju Cole

  Space, Helping, Painting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• 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.

  Alice Walker

  Pain, War, Heart

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• At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.

  Richard Wright

  Attitude, Peaceful, Feelings

  Richard Wright (2017). “Black Boy”, p.99, Random House

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• My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

  Steven Seagal

  Kindness, Philosophy, Light

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

  Isabel Burton

  Selfish, People, Mind

  Lady Isabel Burton (1875). “The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal”, p.262

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• Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Roots, Air

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• When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These] wonderful caretakers, doctors, and nurses don't get as much burn-out as people who are more defensive of the feelings and suffering of others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Doctors, Nurse, People

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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

  Anna Funder

  People, Imagination, Imagine

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• [D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)

  Stephen Levine

  Self, Let It Go, Degrees

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