Compassion Quote by Yukio Mishima

“there were worse things than feeling guilty, like feeling dead.”

— Lori Brighton

“genuine compassion makes people feel good, but it doesn’t tolerate total despair or hopelessness, let alone complicity.”

— Erik Valeur

“I felt simultaneously wonderful and wretched, and didn’t know from moment to moment which feeling was uppermost.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Curious, he thought, how, if you knew a person long enough, he could elicit every kind of emotion from you, every possible reaction, envy,…

— Rohinton Mistry

“It was a terrible thing, to love and not know whether you were loved in return, it led to the worst sensations--jealousy, rage, self-loathing--to…

— Katie Kitamura

“The less feelings are released, the better they are portrayed in public. The most sensitive soul can hide behind camouflage and the driest eyes…

— Karin Johannisson

“Compassion without love felt suspiciously like pity.”

— Penny Reid

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

— Matthew Fox

“But the years between now and then had been hard ones—and compassion was a soft emotion, easily eroded by circumstance.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“It was worse--knowing he knew the difference between kindness and cruelty and chose the baser of the two.”

— C.J. Roberts

“as well as over potentially ennobling or morally beatific states like sympathy, melancholia, and shame (the emotions given the most attention in literary criticism’s…

— Sianne Ngai

“Compassion bled away, as did his insight.”

— Luke E.T. Hindmarsh