Compassion Quote by Thornton Wilder

I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose…

— Lucian

“Epicurus is right, that happiness is up at auction all the time, and sold in lots to suit the purchaser whenever he bids high…

— William De Witt Hyde

“The awareness of mortality casts a bittersweet shadow over the vibrancy of life and love. We exist in a state of impermanence, where beauty…

— Monika Ajay Kaul

“Along with the pain, an even greater Love and Compassion seemed to gently hold all the suffering of the world in an embrace.
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— Katherine Parker

“To whatever the soul of man turns, unless toward God, it cleaves to sorrow, even though the things outside God and outside itself to…

— St. Augustine

“One thing seemed to suggest that I might have some wisp of beauty to offer the world: the nature of my heart, which remained…

— Dean Koontz

“Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Thus I stretch out my arms to my Saviour, who, after being foretold for four thousand years, came on earth to die and suffer…

— Blaise Pascal

“I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. I…

— Mary Shelley

“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“To have suffered so much in a certain direction that the suffering is finished, and only its particular wisdom remains, enables one, wherever that…

— James Allen

“My life, my life, my very old one My first badly healed desire, My first crippled love, You had to return. It was necessary…

— Michel Houellebecq