Quotes About Compassion

We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies.

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

A man can be a hero in any profession

Be kind to an old man.

That's me, man – I'm a lover not a fighter.

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!

I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.