Charles Lamb Quotes

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Everyone loves to be loved.

I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don't break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.

'Paris, Texas' gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.

The only time I ever get choked is when I'm at Make-A-Wish headquarters, because you're talking and working with people who share the same ideals.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.

Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.

Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in the eyes of all who surround him.

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that's just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy.