Wayne Coyne Quotes

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

Don't judge someone's attitude until you've felt their pain.

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don't break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.

I'm a very sensitive person.

I am surprisingly very sensitive.

I know what it's like to feel distraught as I am an incredibly sensitive guy and feel for anything and everyone in pain, particularly my own sister.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

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

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.

I care a lot; I'm very sensitive.

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own?

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."