Aeschylus Quotes

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.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

Human suffering is not a competitive sport.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

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

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

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.

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

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

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

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

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.

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

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

My heart bled for the inhabitants.

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

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.