Kristin Bauer van Straten Quotes

Loss makes me feel vulnerable. I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much on Earth, too much suffering. The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.

I was sitting by Dr. Franklin who perceived that I was not insensitive to these mutilations.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

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

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.

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

We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.

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

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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.

I was not insensitive to these mutilations.

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

Human suffering is not, nor should it ever be, a political issue.

It's tough to find the words to say to someone who has lost everything. I can't imagine how it feels.

My heart goes out to anyone who suffers, and of course, to their families.

That's why I'm never happy. Every tragedy, I really feel very painful - especially about a child or old people. This is reality. We try to close eyes and ears, but it's happening every second, and somehow, unfortunately, I feel a connection.

As a parent who is also a journalist, when I talk to the brother and the sister of a victim or the parent of a victim, I put myself in their position and imagine what would it be like if that happened to me.

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

For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.