Tina St. John Quotes

Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.

...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.

Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.

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

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

There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

I can't control my frustration.

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.

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

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

The only thing that really depresses me is animal cruelty.

When you see a person you love being affected, suffering, people saying things that aren't true... then it hurts you.

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

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

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

Life is full of painful events, and people who have lost their way and hurt others. Our pain is not lessened when we respond with hatred. In fact, the opposite occurs: When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.