Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

It's, like, you know, if you're sad, it's a way of connecting with other people. And we - a lot of times we sort of feel embarrassed by being sad, and we go off by ourselves to hide and cry by ourselves. But, really, it's a way of re-establishing relationship.

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.

Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.

Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone.

If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.

He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.

When people are hurting, what they really need is someone who is fully there for them - not someone who is condescending or officious. The only way for you to be there for them is by facing your fear or anger, whatever feelings cause you to shut down.

I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone.

Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.

Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.

I wish I could take away your pain. I wish I could go back to when you were born and take you somewhere safe. Far away from all the people who’ve hurt you. (Kiara) You’re doing that now. (Nykyrian)

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman

This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that close; somehow there's been an immediate bonding between total strangers. We share each other's triumphs, and when one of us gets hurt, we all bleed - it's corny, I know, but it's true. I've never experienced anything like this before. It's great. It turns up the heat in life.

I really just enjoy listening to talk [to John Hurt and Charlotte Rampling]... not even about acting or anything. It's interesting because I felt really connected to all these people very easily. They're all very open emotionally, like we're in the scene together, so you never feel like anyone's acting.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

If you don't have the gift of a loving supportive family, be that gift for someone else. It doesn't have to be a relative, just someone you know who is alone or hurting over the holiday.