Quotes About Compassion

You cannot love without intuition.

I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

He said, 'Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.' This was the love he should have felt for every soul in the world: all the fear and the wish to save concentrated unjustly on the one child. He began to weep.... He thought: This is what I should feel all the time for everyone.

You were there teaching me to squander, so that one day we might have nothing left except this love of You. But You are too good to me. When I ask You for Pain, You give me peace. Give it him too. Give him my peace-he needs it more.

What are others worth that they have the nerve to sneer at any human being?

Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don't write that as a sneer; there are so many of us who can't)

It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard, to break the future gently when it came.

Regret your own actions, if you like that kind of wallowing in self-pity, but never, never despise. Never presume yours is a better morality.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

Hatred is a failure of imagination.' Graham Greene, 'The Power and the Glory'.

I think I have always liked my fellow men. Liking is a great deal safer than love. It doesn't demand victims. Who is your victim, Querry?

El sufrimiento no aumenta por el número: un cuerpo puede contener todo el sufrimiento que puede sentir el mundo.

I hate your reasons. I don't want reasons. If you see somebody in pain, people like you reason and reason. You say - pain is a good thing, perhaps he'll be better for it one day. I want to let my heart speak... Yes. At the end of a gun.

When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity – that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination. He

If you don't see misery you don't believe in it. You can give anyone pain from a distance.

no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness

friendship cannot stand humiliation.

what experience had taught him- that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But they can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care.