Quotes About Compassion

If we could understand and love the infinity of agonies which languish around us, all the lives which are hidden deaths, we should require as many hearts as there are suffering beings.

Chatter: any conversation with someone who has not suffered.

Inainte de razboi, traia acel poet batran si bolnav, uitat de toata lumea, si care, citisem undeva, le poruncise alor sai sa spuna ca nu e acasa pentru nici un vizitator. Nevast?-sa, din mil?, mergea din când în când s? sune la u??...

The only way to reach another person at any depth is to move toward what is deepest in yourself. In other words, to take the opposite path from the one followed by so-called generous minds.

A iubi înseamn? a suferi ÅŸi cum mulÅ£i fug de suferin??, puÅ£ini ÅŸtiu s? iubeasc?.

Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone.

Am impresia c? numai eu suf?r, c? toat? suferinÅ£a acestei lumi s-a concentrat în mine, c? numai eu mai am drept la suferin??, deÅŸi îmi dau seama c? exist? suferinÅ£e ÅŸi mai groaznice... M? simt atât de impresionat în faÅ£a suferinÅ£ei, încât îmi pierd aproape tot curajul. Åži-l pierd, fiindc? nu pricep de ce exist? suferin?? în lume.

El sufrimiento de los demás tiene sobre mí un efecto directo. Pero, si mañana desapareciera la humanidad, me daría igual.

Never judge a man without putting yourself in his place." This old proverb makes all judgment impossible, for we judge someone only because, in fact, we cannot put ourselves in his place.

My mission Is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

We must side with the oppressed on every occasion, even when they are in the wrong, though without losing sight of the fact that they are molded of the same clay as their oppressors.

ask those I love to be kind enough to grow old.

Never judge a man without putting yourself in his place.' This old proverb makes all judgement impossible, for we judge someone only because, in fact, we cannot put ourselves in his place.

I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point

Uno debe ponerse del lado de los oprimidos en cualquier circunstancia, incluso cuando están equivocados, sin perder de vista, no obstante, que están hechos del mismo barro que sus opresores.

Nie sÄ…d? nikogo, nim nie postawisz siÄ™ na jego miejscu." To stare powiedzonko z góry wyklucza wszelki osÄ…d, skoro przecie? osÄ…dzamy kogoÅ› wÅ'aÅ›nie dlatego, ?e nie mo?emy postawi? siÄ™ na jego miejscu.

My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconscious, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

Nobody is comforted in his sufferings by the thought we are all mortals, nor does anybody who suffers really find comfort in the past or present suffering of others.

Better than anyone I am able to forgive on the spot. My desire for revenge comes late, too late, when memory of the offense is fading and when, the incitation to action having become virtually nonexistent, I have only one recourse: to deplore my 'good feelings'.

Man interests me only since he has ceased to believe in himself. Wile he was in his ascending phase, he deserved no more than indifference. Now he provokes a new sentiment, a special sympathy: compassionate horror.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves.

We tell our troubles to someone only to make him suffer, to make him assume them for himself

Geschwätz ist jede Konversation mit einem, der nicht gelitten hat.