Robert Capa Quotes

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

I was sitting by Dr. Franklin who perceived that I was not insensitive to these mutilations.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able to save people, witnessing their pain.

'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain.

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

The most bitter pain among men: to have much knowledge but little power.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.