Susan Sarandon Quotes

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.

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

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

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.'

My mum told me that the best thing you could give a woman was attention.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

Everyone loves to be loved.

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.

I know what it takes to be a good boyfriend. Time, first and foremost. To be there for someone and be involved in their life.

If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with 'sad eyes.' Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love.

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.

One of women's greatest values is compassion.

Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.

No one should be left to suffer alone.

The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody.' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

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.