Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Love and Death (1975)
Source: First Comes Marriage
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Love and Death (1975)
“Suffering for another is one of the most painful ways to love!”
Valter Bitencourt Júnior (1994) Brazilian poet and writer
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
"The Reasons for My Involvement in the Peace Movement" (1972) http://www.shalomctr.org/node/61; later included in Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity (1996) <br class="br">Context: There is immense silent agony in the world, and the task of man is to be a voice for the plundered poor, to prevent the desecration of the soul and the violation of our dream of honesty.<br>The more deeply immersed I became in the thinking of the prophets, the more powerfully it became clear to me what the lives of the Prophets sought to convey: that morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
Malcolm Azania book From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain
Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 11 “Self-Distraction is Self-Destruction” (p. 325)
“The ability to suffer and the ability to love are one.”
Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) Swiss doctor and mystic
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 45