26 Quotes About Suffering-of-others

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.

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

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

Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the 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.

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

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.

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