Whittaker Chambers Quotes

Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.

The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.

As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why !

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

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