Compassion Quote by Marcel Proust

“Suffering is a form of egoism. I speak only of myself. I am not talking about her, saying what she was, making an overwhelming…

— Roland Barthes

“Human misery was the trough from which she now fed herself and she felt more comfortable in the presence of other unlucky people. It…

— Andrew Neiderman

“Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations.”

— Thomas Hardy

“her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom. It beat with odd little jerks; her hands were cold,…

— Margaret Mitchell

“She found a deep sense of fitness in the fact that here, among people, they should be strangers; strangers and enemies. She thought, these…

— Ayn Rand

“For the absence of human companionship in bestial forms; the loss of green fields, free to her as to the winds of heaven, and…

— George MacDonald

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.”

— Michelle Franklin

“Suffering is key to inspiration.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under…

— John Brunner

“Every thing was a friend, or bore her thoughts to a friend; and though there had been sometimes much of suffering to her- though…

— Jane Austen

“she admired the strength and kindness with which he handled his wife’s suicide attempts, saying that it taught her that all of life, including…

— Caroline Moorehead