Justin Cronin Quotes

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

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.

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.

I've had the chance to meet families with children who are sick, and it's heartbreaking.

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

Here let me sit in sorrow for mankind.

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep.

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

Silence in times of suffering is the best.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.

Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.