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| Harmen över andras olycka är medlidandets bror. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| I alla djupa och starka känslor blandar medlidandet sig alltid in. | Boris L. Pasternak (1890-1960) |
| Medkänsla är grunden för all moral. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Medlidande kostar ingenting och är ingenting värt. | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Medlidande är kärlekens sista önskan, kanske själva kärleken. | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) |
| Medlidandet är den billigaste av alla mänskliga känslor. | Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) |
| Människans största och ädlaste känslor är medkänsla och förlåtelse. | Alexandre Dumas d.y. (1824-1895) |
| Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. | Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) |
| Compassion is a two way street. | Frank Capra (1897-1991) |
| Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. | Frederick Buechner (1926-) |
| Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. | Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978) |
| There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. | Milan Kundera (1929-) |
| By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also | Thomas Browne, Sr. |
| Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. | John W. Gardner (1912-2002) |
| When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. | Peter de Vries (1910-1993) |
| Compassion is no substitute for justice. | Rush Limbaugh (1951-) |
| The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. | Frederick Buechner (1926-) |
| For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again. | Paula Cole (1968-) |
| Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| The dew of compassion is a tear. | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. | Abraham J. Heschel |
| Compassion is the basis of all morality | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Make no judgements where you have no compassion. | Thomas Browne, Sr. |
| By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also | Thomas Browne, Sr. |
| Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. | Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978) |
| Compassion is no substitute for justice. | Rush Limbaugh (1951-) |
| I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Compassion is a two way street. | Frank Capra (1897-1991) |
| The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands. | Arthur H. Stainback |
| The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.- | Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality. | John W. Gardner (1912-2002) |
| Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart | Paulo Coelho (1947-) |
| Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent | Pope Pius XI (1857-1939) |
| More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me | Harry Kemp |
| None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware | Robert Herrick (1868-) |
| Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either | Garrison Keillor (1942-) |
| Soft pity enters an iron gate. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| The dew of compassion is a tear. | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Compassion is no substitute for justice. | Rush Limbaugh (1951-) |
| Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will | William Cowper (1731-1800) |
| Medlidenhet er kjærlighetens bleke søster. | William Jones (1746-1794) |
| Medlidenhet med andres lidelser hindrer oss i å fortvile over vår egen lidelse. | Frédéric Louis Godet (1812-1900) |
| Naturen har gitt mange evnen til medlidenhet, men få evnen til medglede. | Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) |