Compassion Quote by R.A. Lafferty

“Some internal process held him rapt. He had begun, perhaps, to map the paths inside himself which led to the Past. This gave him…

— M. John Harrison

“He thought of nothing. Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind--faces of people he had…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...Wrapped in the overcoat, he dropped on the seat and faced the eternal verities of sky and sea. No land was intruding. It was…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had gone mad. I had - for my sins, I suppose - to…

— Joseph Conrad

“He was not utterly unskilled in handling his own lack of training, and he refused to be rashly drawn into a controversy about those…

— St. Augustine of Hippo

“Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought…

— Wendell Berry

“But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think it had…

— Joseph Conrad

“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every…

— Lawrence Durrell

“Oh! in his rapture he was weeping even over those stars, which were shining to him from the abyss of space, and "he was…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“When we spoke about attempts to give a man in camp mental courage, we said that he had to be shown something to look…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“He could not feel agony. He could not feel sadness. His consciousness felt smoky, wisplike, incapable of anything but calm”

— Mitch Albom

“And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man I was…

— Henry Miller