Quotes About Compassion

A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either.

When women love, they forgive everything, even our crimes; when they do not love, they cannot forgive anything, not even our virtues.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

The more a man judges, the less he loves

Mais que peuvent les malheureux? Ils aiment, voilà tout.

Le sentiment que l'homme supporte le plus difficilement est la pitié, surtout quand il la mérite. La haine est un tonique, elle fait vivre, elle inspire la vengeance; mais la pitié tue, elle affaiblit encore notre faiblesse.

Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,--she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

Ba?kalar?n?n mutlulu?u, art?k mutlu olamayacaklar?n sevinci olur.

If only I could bear all your sorrows for you! . . . Ah! you were so happy when you were little and still with me —

El sentimiento que el hombre soporta más difícilmente es la compasión, sobre todo cuando la merece. El odio es un tónico, hace vivir, inspira la venganza; pero la compasión mata, debilita aun nuestra flaqueza. Es el mal hecho embelesador, es el desprecio en la ternura o la ternura en la ofensa.

The feeling of pity in others is very difficult for a man to bear, and it is hardest of all when the pity is deserved.

There is no need to cry, lad; there is a God for us all," said an old sailor, with rough kindliness in his thick voice.

Femeia are comun cu îngerii faptul c? cei care sufer? îi apar?in.

Chi infatti deciderà se è spettacolo più orrendo quello dei cuori umani induriti o quello dei teschi vuoti?

Mor?l?s ciešanas, kas p?rsp?j fizisk?s, allaž izraisa maz?ku ž?lumu, jo cilv?ka acij nav saskat?mas.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.