Quotes About Shared Suffering

#1. Shared suffering, she'd found, was no guarantee of intimacy.

Michel Faber

#2. Nothing brings people closer together than shared suffering

Francine Rivers

#3. There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.

Frank Herbert

#4. Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

Deepak Chopra

#5. The term compassion means shared suffering. You develop compassion by knowing what it is like to suffer.

Victor Shamas

#6. Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.

Don Meyer

#7. If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our sufferings? This shared suffering confers the kingdom on us. For he spoke truly who said, 'If we suffer with Him, then we shall also be glorified with Him' (Rom. 8:17).

Maximus The Confessor

#8. Shared suffering makes a team a team.

Don Meyer

#9. Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

Eugene H. Peterson

#10. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.

Julie Gregory

#11. Suffering is easier to endure when shared.

Jonathan Maberry

#12. For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

Charles Kingsley

#13. He slowly lowered his arms. The look on his face reached out and wrapped her in a warm embrace of love. He got to his feet and held out his hand. She closed the gap between them and buried her face in his chest. His arms enfolded her.

Melanie Dickerson

#14. That's what it is to be a grandma. All fun and no stress.

Marie Osmond

#15. Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.

Mother Teresa

#16. I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen - stirring and smelling things so we would understand how things were made.

Ainsley Harriott

#17. Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.

Ally Carter

#18. I love fashion. I think it's so important, because it's how you show yourself to the world.

Emma Watson

#19. Bad things happen to everyone. Not that this was an excuse or a justification for wronging another human being. Still, all humans had this shared experience - that of suffering. No human being left this world without shedding a tear, or feeling pain, or wading into the sea of sorrow.

Sylvain Reynard

#20. That "these people" were ourselves, that this insistence on mistrust of others - that people who looked so very much like each other, who shared a common history of suffering and humiliation and enslavement, should be taught to mistrust each other, even as children, is no longer a mystery to me.

Jamaica Kincaid

#21. We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity - with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies.

Sharon Salzberg

#22. We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

#23. Mom could have shared her suffering with her children, but she didn't. She could have succumbed to a world of pain and sorrow, but she didn't. Instead she loved each of us deeper, and found even more reasons to celebrate our lives together.

Ron Mayes

#24. I'm a scorer, not a triple-double player

Kobe Bryant

#25. Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?

David Gianadda

#26. God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.

Bernie Siegel

#27. They shared an unshakeable belief in beauty, in overflow, in everythingness, the bursting, indelible beauty in a world where there is so much suffering and wounding and pain.

Elizabeth Alexander

#28. The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.

Gene Weingarten

#29. This book originally aimed at pressing a useful metaphor into the service of elucidating a troubled world; a world

Yanis Varoufakis

#30. If she had learnt any lesson today it was that men were stupid, helpless creatures made needlessly cruel by their terror of showing their feelings.

Jayne Bauling

#31. In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

Dylan Moran

#32. I believe in the writer's mission. He receives it from the word, which carries its suffering and its hope within it. He questions the words, which question him. He accompanies the words, which accompany him. The initiative is shared, as if spontaneous.

Edmond Jabes

#33. There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#34. Suffering can never ultimately be meaningless, because God has shared it.

Philip Yancey

#35. Psychoanalysis is a new version of the ancient theme shared by all the great religions. The loss of illusion, the giving up of attachment to a false reality, the inevitability of suffering and expiation are all present in psychoanalysis. Every person who seeks analysis is on a personal pilgrimage.

Margaret Arden

#36. I mention all this so that you will understand that is part of the process: once you've found out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding it out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.

Nora Ephron