Oscar Wilde Quotes

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

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

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain.

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

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

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me...

People aren't very good at other people's pain.