# Quotes about compassion

- Quotes: 9
- Authors: 8
- Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion

## Quotes

> It is those who cannot connect who hasten to cast the first stone.

[E.M. Forster](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster.md) · [Howards End](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/howards-end.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/howards-end/it-is-those.md)

Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md)

> "Nobody can tell what I suffer! — But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied."

[Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Pride and Prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/nobody-can-tell.md)

Topics: [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md)

> No flocks that range the valley free
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> To slaughter I condemn;
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> Taught by that Power that pities me,
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> I learn to pity them:
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> But from the mountain’s grassy side
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> A guiltless feast I bring;
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> A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied,
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> And water from the spring.

[Oliver Goldsmith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith.md) · [The Vicar of Wakefield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith/the-vicar-of-wakefield.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith/the-vicar-of-wakefield/no-flocks-that.md)

Topics: [animals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals.md), [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md)

> I shall temper so
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> Justice with mercy.

[John Milton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton.md) · [Paradise Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/i-shall-temper.md)

Topics: [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md), [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md)

> Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

[Edward Gibbon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon.md) · [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/our-sympathy-is-cold.md)

Topics: [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md)

> In a distant age and climate the tragic scene of the death of Hussyn will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

[Edward Gibbon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon.md) · [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/in-a-distant.md)

Topics: [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md)

> "Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated."

[Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Rebel](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-rebel/then-we-understand.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md)

> "I would ask you, dearest, to be very generous with him always, and very lenient on his faults when he is not by. I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding."
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> "It is a painful reflection to me," said Charles Darnay, quite astounded, "that I should have done him any wrong. I never thought this of him."
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> "My husband, it is so. I fear he is not to be reclaimed; there is scarcely a hope that anything in his character or fortunes is reparable now. But, I am sure that he is capable of good things, gentle things, even magnanimous things."
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> She looked so beautiful in the purity of her faith in this lost man, that her husband could have looked at her as she was for hours.
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> "And, O my dearest Love!" she urged, clinging nearer to him, laying her head upon his breast, and raising her eyes to his, "remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in his misery!"

[Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/i-would-ask.md)

Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md)

> There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of softmindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce softminded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
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> But we must not stop with the cultivation of a tough mind. The gospel also demands a tender heart. ... What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of toughmindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hardheartedness?

[Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr.md) · [Strength to Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr/strength-to-love.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr/strength-to-love/there-is-little.md)

Topics: [thinking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking.md), [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md)