Edith Wharton Quotes

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

I firmly believe that usually, the person who hurt you doesn't realize what they've done or how much it hurt you. So, continue to pray for the person or situation that caused your pain and anger. Ask God to give you understanding about why they did what they did.

if we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

You have to give a wound time to heal and think of other people's feelings.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

Then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you.

The solid truth of the matter is, when you find - if you want to help heal the hurt, if you want to hurt people and - help people in pain, the best way to do so is to call upon the great strength of the country, which is the compassion of our fellow Americans.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.

Forgiving is...recognizing the injury, owning the pain, & reaching out.

A crushing hurt comes to our heart and the sympathizing, scarred hand of Christ presses the wound; and just for a moment,the pain seems to intensify,...bu t finally the bleeding stops.