Quotes About Compassion

Some three years after the end of the war my father died. He died as he had lived, quietly and with more thought for others than for himself.

I am unstable, sometimes melancholy, and have been called on some occasions imperious; but I never did an ungenerous act in my life. I sympathise warmly with others, and have wasted my heart in their love.

required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.

But I am not so wretched as you are

Ninguno de nosotros gozaba de predilección alguna sobre los demás, y nunca se escucharon en casa órdenes autoritarias, pero nuestro cariño mutuo nos empujaba a obedecer y a satisfacer hasta el más mínimo deseo de los demás.

El afecto que este huésped suscita en mí aumenta diariamente. Excita simultáneamente mi admiración y mi compasión en medida asombrosa, ¡Cómo puedo ver una criatura tan noble destruida por el sufrimiento, sin experimentar el dolor más acerbo! Es tan bondadoso, y al mismo tiempo tan sensato; su mente está tan cultivada; y cuando habla, aunque sus palabras están elegidas con el arte más refinado, fluyen con rapidez y elocuencia sin igual.

Mis maldades son hijas de una soledad forzada que aborrezco, y mis virtudes florecerán necesariamente cuando reciba la comprensión de un igual.

They are kind—they are the most excellent creatures in the world; but, unfortunately, they are prejudiced against me. I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some degree beneficial; but a fatal prejudice clouds their eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster.

persuaded myself that when they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues, they would compassionate me, and overlook my personal deformity. Could they turn from their door one, however monstrous, who solicited their compassion and friendship?

My dear Frankenstein," exclaimed Henry, when he perceived me weep with bitterness, "are you always to be unhappy? My dear friend, what has happened?

Cuando mueran las pasiones del hombre, la pobreza desaparecerá. Cuando el odio no se iguale al amor, existirá la fraternidad entre los hombres.

Sometimes the peasants, scared by this horrid apparition, informed me of his path; sometimes he himself, who feared that if I lost all trace I should despair and die, often left some mark to guide me.

Peace, peace! learn my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

Viva, sea feliz y haga felices a los demás.

I could not consent to the death of any human being; but certainly I should have thought such a creature unfit to remain in the society of men.

my first impulses, which had suggested to me the duty of obeying the dying request of my friend, in destroying his enemy, were now suspended by a mixture of curiosity and compassion.

The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and, with

Pero tenemos la obligación de esconder nuestro dolor para no aumentar el de los que nos rodean.

cal que els que sobreviuen [a un mort] refrenin l'augment de l'afliccio que una immoderada demostració de pena podria dur (...)

Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

But is it not a duty to the survivors, that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?

When you focus on their outward form, you will see only differences between the Muslim, the Christian, and the Jew. Why not zoom in on the inner light that they all share?

While you soar in prosperity, seize the chance to be generous.