Karl Philipp Moritz Quotes

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Growing up in Westboro, there was a culture of celebrating death and tragedy... a very calloused way of seeing other people's pain. After I left, it took me a while to be able to really empathize with what it must have been like for the loved ones of people whose funerals we protested.

I don't think the biggest crime is to not sympathize with people. I think the biggest crime is to not be interested.

One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to my mother's funeral in 1994, and how kind she was during that difficult time.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.

I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

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

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.