"We all like to see people sea-sick..." - Quote by Mark Twain
We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.
More by Mark Twain
“Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?”
“As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.”
“It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.”
More on Human Nature
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
“Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?”
“We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.”
More on Empathy
“In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.”
“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”