Quotes About Compassion

I stood for a moment, letting my ears do the walking, and then I gave the bell a thorough ring and waited thirty thoughtful seconds before ringing it again. And that, let me assure you, is not a waste of time. Public institutions throughout the fifty states provide food and clothing and shelter for lads who don't ring the bell first.

Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.

When you really love, you can never be hurt.

One word 'love' has to do service for so many different kinds of the same animal.

I realized then the truth about all love: that it is an absolute which takes all or forfeits all. The other feelings, compassion, tenderness and so on, exist only on the periphery and belong on the constructions of society and habit. But she herself- austere and merciless Aphrodite-is a pagan. it is not our brains or instincts which she picks-but our very bones.

Loving is so much truer when sympathy, not desire, makes the match; for it leaves no wounds.

I suppose writers are cruel people. The dead do not care. It is the living who might be spared if we could quarry the message which lies buried in the heart of all human experience.

for those of us who feel deeply and who are at all conscious of the inextricable tangle of human thought there is only one response to be made — ironic tenderness and silence.

Does God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you're not using?

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

I appreciate when people listen to the sad songs, because it's almost like telling someone your problems and having them listen with a compassionate ear.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

The idea of giving someone something that I got, that makes me feel sad.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.