Simone Weil Quotes

None knows the weight of another's burden.

My heart goes out to anyone who suffers, and of course, to their families.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

It would be good to rely on the man during my most tired moments. The best is if he will listen to my stories when I am stressed.

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

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

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

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Sympathy butters no parsnips.

People call me and they want talk, they need to get something off their mind, I got all the time in the world for them.

Human suffering is not a competitive sport.

When someone you love is in pain, you want to do anything to comfort them.

What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy.

Employ empathy.

If someone is having a bad day, I find you can change it pretty quick by just showing that you care.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.