Quotes About Compassion

I see their dark forms, their beards move in the wind. I know nothing of them except that they are prisoners; and that is exactly what troubles me. Their life is obscure and guiltless;—if I could know more of them, what their names are, how they live, what they are waiting for, what their burdens are, then my emotion would have an object and might become sympathy.

Selles peitubki maailma häda, et me ise ei tunne, mida me korda saadame.

Dugo traje dok ?ovek ne prestane da se trza, ma to bilo i mehani?ki, kao ono žablja noga i galvanska struja. Tek kad se potpuno rastane, po?inje stvarno da se zanima za ono što se ti?e drugih. Jedan paradoks ljubavi.

The cries continued, it is not men, they could not cry so terribly. 'Wounded horses', says Kat. It is is unendurable, it is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred creation, wild with anguish, filled with terror and groaning.

Laikam gan katrs k?dam bija labs cilv?ks. Un k?dam tieši pret?ji.

Leur existence est anonyme et sans culpabilité; si j'en savais davantage sur leur compte, c'est-à-dire comment ils s'appellent, comment ils vivent, ce qu'ils attendent, ce qui les oppresse, mon émotion aurait un but concret et pourrait devenir de la compassion. Mais je n'éprouve ici, derrière eux, que la douleur de la créature, l'épouvantable mélancolie de l'existence et l'absence de pitié qui caractérisent les hommes.

509 sat down with his back to the barrack wall. It had still kept some warmth from the sun. Bucher came and sat down beside him. Strange, he said. Sometimes hundreds die and one doesn't feel anything, and then a single man dies, one who doesn't even concern us much—and it seems as though it were a thousand. 509 nodded. Imagination cannot count. And feeling does not grow stronger through numbers. It can never count beyond one. One—but that's enough if one feels it.

Cât timp capacitatea unei inimi de femeie nu a secat,nu este înc? nimic pierdut.

The whole world ought to pass by this bed and say: "That is Franz Kemmerich, nineteen and a half years old, he doesn't want to die. Let him not die!

Mama înseamn? iertare, sacrificiu.

I have never heard a horse scream and I can hardly believe it [...] The belly of one of the horses has been ripped open and its guts are trailing out. It gets its feet caught up in them and falls, but it gets to its feet again.

The misery of millions is too big a price to pay for the heroics of a few.

I tell you it is the vilest baseness to use horses in the war.

Because none can ever wholly feel what another suffers—is that the reason why wars perpetually recur?

Egoismul este un mare defect.Nimeni nu vrea s? fie egoist ?i cu toate astea,to?i sunt egoi?ti.

SimÈ›irea înseamn? totul.SimÈ›irea lipsit? de cuvinte È™i imagine,liniÈ™tea profund?.

I nod and wonder what to say to encourage him. His lips have fallen away, his mouth has become larger, his teeth stick out and look as though they were made of chalk. The flesh melts, the forehead bulges more prominently, the cheekbones protrude. The skeleton is working itself through. The eyes are already sunken in. In a couple of hours it will be over.

Omul fericit este mai în m?sur? s? simt? compasiune pentru alÈ›ii.Cel fericit simte cu mai mult? intensitate nefericirea decât cel fericit.Chiar dac? ajunge uÈ™or la contrarul ei.?i mulÈ›i dintre cei care fac haz de nefericirea lor se complac, în fond, în ea.

A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one hospital, one single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany, hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible.

Šodien katrs dom? par sevi. P?r?k daudz pasaul? nelaimes.

Voljeti ne zna?i vje?ito ponavljati da ti je žao

He would not question Barretto's love, since to know Jenny is to love Jenny; it's a universal truth

Amar significa nunca tener que decir lo siento

At a time when hundreds of men have been put to death without trial or any sort of evidence of guilt, and when the population literally trembles with fear, animals have rights guaranteed them which men and women cannot think of expecting.