Virgil Quotes

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

My heart bled for the inhabitants.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

I feel like if you're in a bad situation, and then you see somebody that's even in a worse situation, you feel for that person.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

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

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.