Quotes About Compassion

Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.

There's no soldier don't have a queer little spot in his wretched heart for his enemy, that's just a fact.

What can I tell you further? I once lived among humankind, and found them in their generality to be cruel and cold, and yet could mention the names of three or four that were like angels. I suppose we measure the importance of our days by those few angels we spy among us, and yet aren't like them.

And he is about seventy, very dignifed, unwell, and mad. Yes, he is mad. That is to say, psychotic, and I see from his file that he unfortunately was found years ago sheltering in a schoolyard, under a seat, with three dead dogs tied to his leg, which he was dragging about with him. But as I spoke to him, all I could feel was love. That was ridiculous. And I am deeply, deeply suspicious of it.

Why should a man help another man? No need, the world don't care about that. World is just a passing parade of cruel moments and long drear stretches where nothing going on but chicory drinking and whisky and cards.

As I do not seem able much to heal, then maybe I can simply be a responsible witness to the miracle of the ordinary soul.

The trust of those in dark need is forgiving work.

Killing hurts the heart and soils the soul.

The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who know them and love them.

And of course I started to cry. Not for myself strangely enough, though I am sure I could have, with capital and interest, but no, not for myself. For my mother? Who can really itemise the cause of our human tears?

What would have comforted that writhing woman in a lost bed in the lost land of Strandhill I do not know. If I were a horse they would have shot me out of mercy.

I know I can rely on the kindness of folk along the way. The ones that don't try to rob me will feed me. That how it is in America.

They stood there two feet apart in all that vale of tears, one man asking another how he was, the other asking how the other was, the one not knowing truly what the world was, the other not knowing either. One nodded to the other now in an expression of understanding without understanding, of saying without breathing a word. And the other nodded back to the other, knowing nothing. Not this new world of terminality and astonishing dismay, of extremity of ruin and exaggeration of misery.

Whitemen in the main just see slaves and Indians. They don't see the single souls. How all are emperors to those that love them.

A human person finds a little medicine in another's sadness. So I found. But it's not so strange because the world is mysterious anyhow.

She was trying to wash the violence off of him.

with ringworm, lice bites, and a million bugs. Men so sick they are dying

Mit Betteln nähren viele sich, Die reicher sind als du und ich!

There is nothing more sir, than to love and be loved.

One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.

Jeder Mensch trägt die Fähigkeit des Tötens in sich. Jeder hat einen Punkt, an dem er zerbricht. Zum Glück gibt es nur wenige, die die Skrupellosigkeit besitzen, diesen psychischen Nullpunkt bei anderen zu finden.

Martin wished he had less experience, hadn't looked into so many empty faces to know first hand that there was no scalpel or chemotherapy in the entire world able to completely remove the cancer-like tumour that had established itself in this girl's soul after the hell she'd been through. In such cases psychologists and doctors were like engineers in Chernobyl or Fukushima. They could never get rid of the problem altogether, merely mitigate the consequences of the catastrophe

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

For all the types of pain that can lead to suffering there is a solution. Through opening our hearts with compassion to the pain that life brings, we can truly cure our pain and avoid our suffering. Then we can walk in the valley of love and experience the vast space within our heart.