Human nature Quote by Oscar Wilde

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

— Oscar Wilde

Pain is what the world inflicts upon us. Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail to make the difficult conscious choice to choose…

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

— Lillie Langtry

“The joy is not in the presence of pain, but in the knowledge that God is using our pain to refine us and make…

— Joe Stowell

“We may not ever understand why we suffer or be able to control the forces that cause our suffering, but we can have a…

— Harold S. Kushner

“Pain is the price we pay for memory. It’s some kind of sin to forget what hurts, as much as it is to forget…

— Ron Franscell

“Pain has a purpose. It makes us stronger. More compassionate. Able to love more deeply than we thought possible. If we let it, it…

— D. Nichole King

“I've also learned that the more we diminish our own pain, or rank it compared to what others have survived, the less empathic we…

— Brené Brown

“Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.”

— Peter Ackroyd

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

— Tim Hansel

“...pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that brings only joy: love.”

— Paulo Coelho's

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

— John Sterling