Devoted Quote by Horace Mann

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

— Horace Mann

The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

— Dean Koontz

“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections;…

— Herman Melville

“However powerfully pity affects us, it nevertheless saves us in a way from the primordial suffering of the world, just”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of…

— Horace Bushnell

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of…

— Bertrand Russell

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Under every burden, .....God will slip His hand. Every gulf of sorrow, .....His great love has spanned, Into every heart-ache, .....God will our His…

— Frances J Roberts

“To have despair is human...for we all have problems that at times burden us. To rise above your trials and tribulations, sadness, suffering and…

— Timothy Pina

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy…

— Friedrich Nietzsche