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Quotes About Compassion

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
~ Chief Joseph
When I became ill, I started to experience what my patients had suffered under my care.
~ Kent Brantly
I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
~ Ralph Abernathy
You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.
~ Andre Aciman
I know how much my late center Mike Webster suffered. I can only imagine what a lot of defensive players from my era are going through.
~ Terry Bradshaw
I like someone who's suffered from both sides.
~ Diane Lane
Cancer doesn't care if you have suffered before.
~ Jenna Morasca
After 'A Perfect Storm' came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as 'Arizona,' that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.
~ Lori Foster
It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
~ Ingrid Betancourt
It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.
~ Robert Rinder
Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.
~ Howard Jacobson
People who have suffered know more about compassion.
~ Betty Buckley
I have endured pain and suffering in my life, things haven't always been easy, I have suffered. And now I can help people in their lives.
~ Gemma Collins
I suffered too much and I want to stop the suffering of other people.
~ Phan Thi Kim Phuc
There will be occasions when someone has suffered a crime where it is either obvious that they are not looking for an investigation or that there are no investigative opportunities and you just have to be up front about that.
~ Cressida Dick
I've suffered a little bit with depression in the past and I also have friends who have gone through depression.
~ Kym Marsh
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~ Marcel Proust
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
~ Lucy Stone
Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
~ Mary Lyon
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
~ Patch Adams
Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.
~ Peter Singer
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
~ Anne Lamott
Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.
~ Brigitte Bardot
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche