Paulo Coelho Quotes

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.

All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful intelligence and a much greater ability to achieve happiness and avoid suffering. Real happiness and friendship come not from money or even knowledge, but from warm-heartednes s. Once we recognize this we will be more inclined to cultivate it.

Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people... have a story that will bring you to your knees. Nobody rides for free.

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

Don't tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

Human suffering is not a competitive sport.

It's one thing to see the suffering and dying on the television screen and quite another to be there and experience it. You cannot look into the eyes of a starving child and yourself remain the same.

Conflicts are multiplying - people are suffering. But we don't give up, because we know every man, woman, and child deserves a life of peace.

The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all - it's their lives and their stories and their love and will to keep living that moves me to write.

Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.