Quotes About Compassion

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Mercy often inflicts death.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.

The plain fact is that we are starving people, not deliberately in the sense that we want them to die, but wilfully in the sense that we prefer their death to our own inconvenience.

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

I strongly believe that each preventable death is one death too many.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

It is the doctors who desert the dying and there is so much to be learned about pain.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?

There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.