Elie Wiesel Quotes

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

I think my first big heartbreak made me more compassionate about other people's heartaches. It enabled me to feel more for others when they are in moments of pain.

Compassion is concern of others' well being.

Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.

It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.