Neil Gaiman Quotes

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.

You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie". - Eric, Club dead.

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this."

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

Suffering is easier to endure when shared.

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.” “What help could I give him? I am no maester, to ease his pain. I have no spell to give him back his legs.” “You gave me help when I needed it” Jon Snow said. “I gave you nothing,” Tyrion said. “Words.” “Then give your words to Bran too.

As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes.

I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle.

I remind myself that my pain is not unique. Everybody suffers.