Compassion Quote by Dessa

“That death, so full of suffering for us both, suffering that still overwhelmed my life, was yet a severe mercy. A mercy as severe…

— Sheldon Vanauken

“It would have been so much in accordance with the wisdom of life, which consists in putting out of sight all the reminders of…

— Joseph Conrad

“We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It's like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for those who…

— Douglas Clegg

“yet the heart is suddenly shattered, the body falls in separate motions and the blood is astonished to be freed on the air; the…

— Ray Bradbury

“My parents, teachers, and the culture I grew up in showed me a drawer in which to stuff my merciful nature, because mercy made…

— Anne Lamott

“let us learn to withstand it resolutely, and to fight it. And to start to rid it of its greatest advantage over us, let…

— Michel de Montaigne

“In the chaos of this world, where we carom and collide in the everyday turbulence, there's something about the specific gravity of the helpless…

— David Stuart MacLean

“Death smoothes the rough edges, obliterates the cruelties of the deceased. It makes heroes of monsters.”

— Cathy Holton

“Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is…

— Dan Brown

“Any chance we can bypass the cruelest method of death and settle this over a game of cards?”

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

“The Mercy Band," which is guiding this work, endeavoring to bring humanity to a realization of the simplicity of the transition called death, and…

— Carl A. Wickland

“The mourners clustered around the edge of the grave, paralyzed by the horror of this thing, this first discovery of death that was worse…

— Chris Cleave