Dorothy Day Quotes

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

If you have the support of people with a heart and a brain, then you're good.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

I always think you have to show a degree of humanity and sensitivity when you're dealing with people in extreme circumstances.

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a little brotherhood.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Empathy, humanity and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with the sufferer, that we come either to conceive or to be affected by what he feels, may be demonstrated by many obvious observations, if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself. When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.

I don't want my guy to buy me cars, villas or diamonds. I can do all that. I don't want any PDA, either. But my guy should be very sensitive to my pains and sorrows and should try to make me happy because I'd do all that for him. Sadly, most of the men that I have met in the past couple of years are too self-obsessed.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.