Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

None knows the weight of another's burden.

My heart bled for the inhabitants.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

It takes a little blood to let the learning in.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.

Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

It's tough to find the words to say to someone who has lost everything. I can't imagine how it feels.

My heart goes out to anyone who suffers, and of course, to their families.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.