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Quotes About Compassion

I want a world where you can live and be happy.
~ Patrick Ness
Oh, poor little Seth, with his poor little parents who didn't love him. You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know. Maybe your parents didn't love you enough, and that sucks, yes, it does, but maybe it wasn't because you were bad. Maybe it was just because the worst thing in the world had happened to them and they weren't able to deal with it.
~ Patrick Ness
He said enough to bring me walking, the monster said. I know injustice when I see it.
~ Patrick Ness
She can smell him now, a smudge of unwashed skin, poverty, extreme loneliness. She takes the can, still holding his hand, unrolling it, running a finger across its weathered palm.
~ Patrick Ness
Desideravi solo la fine del dolore, disse il mostro. Il tuo dolore. La conclusione dell'isolamento in cui questo ti aveva rinchiuso. è il più umano fra tutti i desideri.
~ Patrick Ness
Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing things that are great for them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway. pg 216
~ Patrick Ness
Albert got her to her feet. He gathered her few wayward things and delicately placed a hand on an unburnt spot to help her walk. —You're going to have this two-tone problem for a while. Your backside is as white as virgin pearl. —A moan will have to suffice for a witty rejoinder. —I'll pretend to be dazzled.
~ Patrick Ness
Richard couldn't even feign compassion. It seemed to Thompson that the general impression Richard was trying to convey, not just with his answers but with the tone of his voice and his body language, was that he was above all this.
~ Unknown
None of us, not any one of us, wants to be defined by the worst day or the worst hour or the worst moment of our lives.
~ Unknown
His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would be) cut down.
~ Unknown
Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Deberías de sentir lástima por él, hijo. Mañana nos iremos, pero él tendrá que convivir consigo mismo hasta el día de su muerte.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
As he continued to load the barrow, he moved slower and slower, like a machine winding down. Eventually he stopped completely and stood for a long minute, still as stone. Only then did his composure break. And even with no one there to see, he hid his face in his hands and wept quietly, his body wracked with wave on wave of heavy, silent sobs.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Un hombre no debe ponerle nunca la mano encima a una mujer, salvo por amor.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You go rummaging around in other people's lives. You hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things. But you don't." He looked hard at the scribe. "When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
But only a fool claims there is no such thing as love. When you see two young ones taring at each other with dewy eyes, there it is. So thick you can spread it on your brread and eat it. When you see a mother with her child, you see love. When you feel it roil in your belly, you know what it is. Even if you cannot give voice to it in words.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me. Pat Rothfuss
~ Patrick Rothfuss
As my father used to say: "Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Takže ano, m?la své vady, ale co znamenají drobné kazy, když jde o záležitosti srdce? Milujeme to, co milujeme. Rozum do toho nemá co mluvit. Svým zp?sobem je práv? nerozumná láska ta pravá. Každý dokáže n?co milovat, protože… To je snadné stejn? jako str?it si minci do kapsy. Ale milovat navzdory…Znát chyby a i k t?m chovat lásku. To je vzácné a ryzí a dokonalé.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
No es mas que una persecución, y creo que compadezco a las mujeres castas que huyen y se pierden el final de la carrera
~ Patrick Rothfuss