Phil Klay Quotes

My heart bled for the inhabitants.

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

We are truly to be pitied.

When I see somebody fall in practice or get hurt, it almost makes me want to cry.

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

The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

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

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

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

I feel like if you're in a bad situation, and then you see somebody that's even in a worse situation, you feel for that person.

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

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

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.

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

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

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

Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.

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.