Andrew Haigh Quotes

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

• People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn’t have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don’t judge people until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.

If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

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

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

I don't want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

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

I think she looked at Vivien the same way. Of course you can. You know. And, and yet with great respect, because she knew how hard it must have been. And that it was even harder for him, of course, than for her.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.