I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
No one should be left to suffer alone.
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.