Josh Billings Quotes

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

Pity those who don't feel anything at all

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

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

But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

We are truly to be pitied.

My heart bled for the inhabitants.

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.

I always say now it's the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.

I feel like there is a real lack of empathy - not just in American society, it's definitely happening in Britain as well - and it's heartbreaking that people can see something and not feel it.

If I see a baby, I don't feel anything. It's like Theresa May walking past a homeless person.

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer.

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

How easy it is to deny the pain of someone else's suffering.

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer. Or that they're the only ones who like ice cream or take their kids on vacation.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.