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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Religious
  • Suffering
  • Journey

• Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Suffering
  • Empathy

• When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.

  

  Marcia Angell
  • Death
  • Suffering
  • Dying

• We still have a strong commitment to our original mission, which is to protect and assist people who are suffering from the impact of violence, but the violence has changed its character, format, and pattern so that we are now responding year after year.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • People
  • Character
  • Strong

• Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.

  

  Johan Cruyff
  • Control
  • Football
  • Suffering

• Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Alone

• Life is not, and death is a dream. Suffering has invented them both as self-justification. Man alone is torn between an unreality and an illusion.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Life
  • Death
  • Dream

• Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Community
  • Jesus
  • Suffering

• Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • World
  • Suffering

• Man does not fear death, only the suffering.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Men
  • Suffering

• We have a kind of pact. If anything ever bothers us, we don't hold it in for one second. From the first day we met, Jen would just drag me out and start telling me stories about her relationships.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Stories
  • Relationships
  • Pact

• 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