Frank A. Clark Quotes

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.

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

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

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.

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

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

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

I could only try to comfort the women that I came face-to-face with. I was really moved by how much they wanted to talk, how much they needed to be comforted, and how happy they were that we were there.

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

But when they needed love or help or had a problem of any kind, they could always go to Roselle because she was always there for them. That was not always the case with me.

I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.

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.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.