Helen Keller Quotes

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

Helen Keller

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• Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Suffering
  • Sea
  • Picnic

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Boredom

• The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Together
  • Suffering

• People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

  

  Otto Dix
  • People
  • War
  • Fear

• I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pain

• Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.

  

  Vanity
  • Fun
  • Jesus
  • Suffering

• China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Change
  • Suffering
  • Leadership

• 'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Action
  • Suffering

• We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Waves

• When sorrow is deepest...then the surface crust is pierced, and consolation wells up, and all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. Thus great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Suffering

• I sing and drink and sleep on floorsAnd try hard not to be annoyedBy all these people worrying about me.So when I'm suffering through some awful drive,You occasionally cross my mind.It's my hidden hope that you are still among them.Well, are you?

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Hope

• In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • World
  • Suffering

• I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.

  

  James Rothman
  • Happy
  • Suffering

• Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Hand
  • Suffering

• Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • World
  • Men
  • Lost

• It's not a giant thrill to hear someone give you the label 'manic-depressive,' but to me I was so relieved. What I was suffering from had a name and could be treated.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Suffering

• I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Suffering
  • Sympathize

• One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.

  

  George Herbert Palmer
  • Mother
  • Worth
  • Schoolmasters

• Our waterways are crucial to the economy in our region, so we need to take every step to keep them secure

  

  Chris Shays
  • Economy
  • Secure
  • Crucial

• A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Children

• We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Suffering