Quotes About Compassion

It's not God who doesn't care, it's us

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Then, seeing a distressed look on Chet's face, he added, "I mean after lunch.

for there is no cure for love save love itself. That is the verdict of all the wise doctors who have ever practiced since the earliest times.

Det är illa gjort mot en sjuk man att likna honom vid en smålänning

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Go on caring for me.

it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.

Gregor's serious wound, from which he suffered for over a month - the apple remained imbedded in his flesh as a visible souvenir since no one dared to remove it - seemed to have reminded even his father that Gregor was a member of the family, in spite of his present pathetic and repulsive shape, who could not be treated as an enemy; that, on the contrary, it was the commandment of the family duty to swallow their disgust and endure him, endure him and nothing more.

When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours?

But perhaps the enthusiastic sensibility of young women of her age also played a role. This feeling sought release at every opportunity, and with it Grete now felt tempted to want to make Gregor's situation even more terrifying, so that then she would be able to do even more for him than now.

Sometimes in his arrogance he has more anxiety for the world than for himself.

Wenn Du vor mir stehst und mich ansiehst, was weißt Du von den Schmerzen, die in mir sind und was weiß ich von den Deinen. Und wenn ich mich vor Dir niederwerfen würde und weinen und erzählen, was wüsstest Du von mir mehr als von der Hölle, wenn Dir jemand erzählt, sie ist heiß und fürchterlich. Schon darum sollten wir Menschen voreinander so ehrfürchtig, so nachdenklich, so liebend stehn wie vor dem Eingang zur Hölle.

When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours? And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell.

Milena who is constantly discovering in herself that the only way to save another person is by being there and nothing else.

Incidentally, it's easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.

We are as forlorn as children lost in the wood. When you stand before me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs within me and what do I know of yours? And if I were to cast myself down before you and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell

no one else has ever taken my side as knowingly and willingly as you, despite everything, despite everything

All the love in the world in the world is useless when there is a total lack of understanding.

Not every child has the endurance and fearlessness to go on searching until it comes to the kindliness that lies beneath the surface. You can only treat a child in the way you yourself are constituted.

It is possible that some people are sorry for me, but I am not aware of it.

All the love in the world is useless when there is a total lack of understanding.

Oh, if only you knew how hard I try to find a kernel of good for myself in all you do and say, even if it torments me.

The less you torment yourself, the less you'll be tormenting me.