Edmund Burke Quotes

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

I guess I feel so tortured most of the time, when I see someone else feeling tortured, I get a little perverse glee out of it.

I think people just like seeing failure.

When I see somebody fall in practice or get hurt, it almost makes me want to cry.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

How easy it is to deny the pain of someone else's suffering.

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

Not many people realize this, but I'm a really squeamish guy. When I watch other horror films that are really over-the-top with their blood and guts, I cannot watch it. So if my threshold to something onscreen is at that level, you can imagine how my threshold is to all the pain and suffering that is happening in the real world.

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

Never find delight in another's misfortune.

All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

Killing makes me feel good.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.