Christopher Paolini Quotes

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at times by a profound sadness that even his own resilient temperament could not dispel.

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

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.

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

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

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

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

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

1967 was the bleakest, darkest, most emotional period of my life.

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.

Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?

Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

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

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

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.

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.