Compassion Quote by Charles Bukowski

“She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost.”

— Cecilia Dart-Thornton

“She was beautiful-- but especially she was without mercy. He must own that strength that could send him away.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She looked up at me, her eyes large with compassion, with understanding of the solitude and incivility of grief.”

— Donna Tartt

“There was money enough... but she asked so much of life, in ways so complex and immaterial. He thought of her as walking bare-footed…

— Edith Wharton

“The wild, incorrigible, irreverent, and slightly insane woman had poured her essence around him when life threatened to break him apart.”

— Kris Michaels

“She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Indulgent compassion and bending to the will of another had nearly destroyed her.”

— Jamie Beck

“She felt everything so deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.”

— Joyce Maynard

“She felt wild and unruly, determined and free.”

— Scott Stabile

“She knew what she saw, and that was all that mattered. Knew what was behind those hard dark eyes, and wanted it more than…

— Stacia Kane

“She offered her love to flawed broken souls and in that we found freedom.”

— Sathyanath Nandakumar

“God the way he was looking at her, with no pity or disgust. Intense, with only the slightest softening around his eyes to save…

— Kit Rocha