Bill Goldberg Quotes

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

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

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

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.

All should take care of the sick

Sympathy butters no parsnips.

Kindness will always make things feel better, more stable.

We forget some of the oldest medicines we have are love and compassion, and they can be deployed by everyone.

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

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

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

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're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

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.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

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.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

The dew of compassion is a tear.