Compassion Quote by William Shakespeare

Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st. Suppose the singing birds musicians, The…

— William Shakespeare

“What is thy body but a swallowing grave, Seeming to bury that posterity Which, by the rights of time, thou needs must have If…

— William Shakespeare

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

— Marcus Aurelius

“and in the times of suffering the body neglects the soul the way the rivers neglect the ashes of the dead they hold”

— Arushi Singh

“Certainly,—and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,—the observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he would, perchance, have pitied this sick…

— Victor Hugo

“your soul is stained with the blood of the innocent, feel their pain”

— Neil Peart

“If,” said he, “thou hast any humanity, I conjure thee to pay some regard to her beauty and weakness. How canst thou behave in…

— Voltaire

“Some one had that day been buried, and less care than is usual had been taken in closing up the grave, for, as I…

— John William Polidori

“I read my sentence steadily, Reviewed it with my eyes, To see that I made no mistake In its extremest clause, — The date,…

— Emily Dickinson

“If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is…

— Marcus Aurelius

Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee.…

— Francis Quarles

“Oh! if, when we oppress and grind our fellow-creatures, we bestowed but one thought on the dark evidences of human error, which, like dense…

— Charles Dickens