Quotes About Compassion

Someone who once said, It's not about the money, it's the kindness, the way it makes the recipient feel special. Life is hard and lonely for many people. If all of us would just make one another feel special now and then—not just with money, but however we can—wouldn't that be lovely?

Listen, did any of those girls feel less pain because Salsbury's evil isn't entirely his own doing? I'm an old-style liberal when it comes to most things. But this liberal line about compassion for the criminal—that's ninety percent horseshit. You

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

one of those doctors who work for nothing in countries that are so poor the people have no money, so they trade with one another using bricks of dry animal dung they can burn to heat their hovels and a few diseased chickens and maybe some edible tubers that they dig out of the floor of a snake-infested jungle

Everyone is damaged, but the heart can be repaired.

Even bad guys," Roy said patiently, "deserve compassion. This man has suffered. You can see that. I need to get my hands on him, yes, and be sure that society's safe from him—but he still deserves to be treated with compassion, with as much mercy as possible.

Friendship is an illusion.. Like love and compassion!

Mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.

on her deathbed... I tell her she is as good a soul as I have ever met or hope to meet, that she is an angel in the flesh, and that I will speak her name to God every night of my life before I go to sleep.

May the judgment not be too heavy upon us.

What good is genius without humility? What value does it have if it isn't married undivorceable to kindness and empathy?

Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.

As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul.

The only monsters were people.

Hearts and minds heal with time, which is a grace of the human condition

The world's crawling with people who don't respect anyone or anything, but we're supposed to respect them, have compassion for the killers because they've been so poorly treated by life.

THE WORLD IS FULL of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

Every year in this war and that, even in our own cities, countless children are killed, while those who spray the bullets—or plant the roadside bomb, authorize the use of nerve gas, send the drone with the Hellfire missile that strikes the wrong target—shed not a tear, referring to those tender deceased as mere "collateral damage," if they acknowledge

Intellect, courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy—each of those qualities was as important to the human species as all the others

When you acted on principle tempered by compassion, there was sooner or later always someone with a saw.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

This is an age when freedoms are fragile. Those in power speak loudly, ceaselessly about compassion but rarely exhibit any.

but that tenderness is a vain form of pity

by those who want to feel good about themselves without being put to the inconvenience of doing something.