Concern Quotes

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Boy, why are you crying?”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Eternal love is a gracious phenomenon, but often remains a temporary concern. ( “I seek you”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The oppression of anonymity and lack of human contact can inveigle people to reinvent themselves, rethink their lives and give hope a chance. Once they have broken down the wall of apathy and reached the wellness of concern, they can realize what it feels to be missed. ("Knowing someone was waiting")”
― ERIK PEVERNAGIE

“When we feel related with our environment we are able to develop and improve the quality of our involvement, since connectedness and concern are remedies against ignorance and envy. ("I only needed a light )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.”
― Morrie Schwartz

“If someone doesn't care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don't hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

“It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.”
― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

“May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.”
― Laura Teresa Marquez

“Let me have a faithful account of all that concerns you; I would know everything, be it ever so unfortunate. Perhaps by mingling my sighs with yours I may make your sufferings less, for it is said that all sorrows divided are made lighter.”
― Héloïse d'Argenteuil, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

“Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Andrew's bare feet were silent against the carpet, but Neil saw a blur of colors on the fogged-up mirror and turned. Andrew studied his chest with a bored look, but the fingers he pressed to Neil's scars were a heavy and lingering weight. Neil waited to see if he had anything to say, but Andrew hadn't spoken to anyone since they checked out of the hotel in Baltimore. Neil doubted the others had noticed, since Andrew rarely talked to even Kevin or Nicky now that he was sober, but Neil wasn't used to the silent treatment. "Hey," Neil said, just to make Andrew look up at him. Neil leaned in to kiss him, needing to know if Andrew would lean away or push him back. Instead Andrew opened his mouth to Neil without hesitation and slid his hand up Neil's chest to his throat.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

“If you’re not happy, then something is wrong. A person comes into the world as a happy being, yet over time, the happiness fades away and they find themselves in this bubble of anxiety and misery all the time. And it’s a comfortable place to stay, so they end up hanging out in this bubble for years and years before it suddenly dawns on them that life is meant to be happy. And, it is. It’s just that they’re too busy getting caught up in worry and stress to notice that life is magnificent and beautiful. Being alive is good. Being alive should already make you happy.”
― Leigh Hershkovich

“Roxy, stop being so obnoxious!" -Joy
"I'm never obnoxious; I'm just concerned." -Roxy”
― Katie MacAlister, Sex and the Single Vampire

“Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale,
Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart
Exhausted, leans on all that can impart
The charm of Sympathy; her mutual wail
How soothing! never can her warm tears fail
To balm our bleeding grief's severest smart;
Nor wholly vain feign'd Pity's solemn art,
Tho' we should penetrate her sable veil.
Concern, e'en known to be assum'd, our pains
Respecting, kinder welcome far acquires
Than cold Neglect, or Mirth that Grief profanes.
Thus each faint Glow-worm of the Night conspires,
Gleaming along the moss'd and darken'd lanes,
To cheer the Gloom with her unreal fires.”
― Anna Seward, Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace

“The slaughter of an innocent child should be of everyone's concern.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Shadow in the Ember

“It troubles me how bottled up he is. What's going to happen when it all comes tumbling out? Will someone get hurt or killed?

And will that someone be me?”
― Berlyn Hayes, Prodigy of Revenge

“So it's not good for you to paint yourself in such a negative light. That insistence of yours is an insult to all the people who care about you.”
― Saekisan, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 3

“A man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.”
― Thucydides, How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy

“The most I can do for people whose suffering happened long ago is to offer my entirely impractical concern. I don't honestly believe that it helps them, but it's an assertion of our interconnection. It cements an intent to care in the present, a promise made collectively before my congregation, and that changes my behavior into the future. I witness, and I am in turn witnessed, and between the two, lies an obligation to do better in the future. The exact nature of that doing is left unnervingly undefined. That bit is up to me.”
― Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

“Wokeism's impact on free speech is a concern when it veers towards canceling individuals for expressing opinions, including through comedy. Comedy, as a bastion of satire and social commentary, should remain a realm where artists fearlessly explore the boundaries of societal norms. The attempt to impose a narrow definition of acceptability not only stifles artistic expression but also undermines the spirit of free speech, which thrives in an atmosphere where ideas, regardless of their contentious nature, can be shared without the fear of retribution.”
― James William Steven Parker

“The fear of death often stems from concerns about what will be remembered of us and who will miss us. But these are concerns of the living, not the departed.”
― Nitzan Hamburg

“I don't know.
I hope it doesn't matter.
I have a terrifying feeling it does.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

“Do not fear the ache and swell my sweet boy.

It’s easy to hate what we’re given.”
― Peter Grandbois

“In any case, I figured she'd want me to stay out of this, as with everything. I tried not to breathe a word about it...but my expression of interest in the matter or gestures of concern also annoyed Mrs Bae.

'What do you know? Can't you see the adults are talking? Where are your manners?'

Damned if I do, damned if I don't”
― Gu Byeong-mo, Piekarnia czarodzieja

“How bad are you?" she said.
"I am in something close to agony but we can talk about that later. Hurry now.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Tenderness is spontaneous and disinterested; it goes far beyond empathetic fellow feeling. Instead it is the conscious, though perhaps slightly melancholy, common sharing of fate. Tenderness is deep emotional concern about another being, its fragility, its unique nature, and its lack of immunity to suffering and the effects of time. Tenderness perceives the bonds that connect us, the similarities and sameness between us. It is a way of looking that shows the world as being alive, living, interconnected, cooperating with, and codependent on itself.

Literature is built on tenderness toward any being other than ourselves. It is the basic psychological mechanism of the novel. Thanks to this miraculous tool, the most sophisticated means of human communication, our experience can travel through time, reaching those who have not yet been born, but who will one day turn to what we have written, the stories we told about ourselves and our world.”
― Olga Tokarczuk