Suffering Of Others Quotes:

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

- Albion Fellows Bacon

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

topic: Philosophy, Philosophical, Suffering Of Others, Great Philosophy

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

- Rebecca Lee Crumpler

topic: Opportunity, Suffering Of Others, African American, Alleviate

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

- Geoffrey Wood

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

topic: Suffering Of Others, Matter, Heal

[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

topic: Self, Suffering Of Others, Let It Go, Self Righteous

Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Believe, Suffering Of Others, People

... 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.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Science, Suffering Of Others, Effort

Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.

- Suzy Kassem

source: "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

topic: Acceptance, Men, Suffering Of Others

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

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Suffering Of Others, Space, Helping, Reticence

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

topic: Blow, Suffering Of Others, Miracle

In order to live fully we may need to look deeply at our own suffering and at the suffering of others. In the depths of every wound we have survived is the strength we need to live. The wisdom our wounds can offer us is a place of refuge. Finding this is not for the faint of heart. But then, neither is life.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

topic: Heart, Order, Suffering Of Others, Faint Of Heart

We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

topic: Suffering Of Others, People, Joy

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

topic: Suffering Of Others, Enlightenment, Needs, Sentient Beings

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

- Anna Funder

topic: Pain, Suffering Of Others, Doe

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

- Mary Robinson

source: Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

topic: Suffering Of Others, People, Empathy

Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for the sufferings of others.

- Mary Robinson

source: Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

topic: Country, Suffering Of Others, People, Developed Country, Starvation

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

source: Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

topic: Doctors, Suffering Of Others, Nurse, Burn Out, Caretakers

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

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Christian, Suffering Of Others, Bears

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.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.64, Penguin

topic: Men, Order, Suffering Of Others, Fountainhead

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

- Meher Baba

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

topic: Happiness, Suffering Of Others, Vegetarian

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

source: W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

topic: Suffering Of Others, Suffering, Resignation, Resigning

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

- W. Somerset Maugham

source: W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

topic: Selfish, Men, Suffering Of Others

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

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

topic: Acceptance, Suffering Of Others, Heroic

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

- Saadi

topic: Pain, Suffering Of Others, Fitting, Not Fitting

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

- Saadi

topic: Suffering Of Others, Indifference, Traitor

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.

- Kristin Bauer van Straten

source: "Interview with True Blood Star, Kristin Bauer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

topic: Fighting, Race, Suffering Of Others

Is it really that much better to make friends with animals before you kill them than to treat them as nameless, faceless objects before you kill them? From a yogic point of view, one must weigh the karmic consequences of perceiving others as mere objects to be used and the consequences of profiting from the suffering of others.

- Sharon Gannon

source: "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

topic: Animal, Views, Suffering Of Others