Compassion Loss Quotes

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

A medical profession founded on callousness to the pain of the other animals may eventually destroy its own sensibility to the pain of humans.

I think everybody, including myself, are in danger of losing our humanity.

All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

Killing a stag is like killing a child. What's the difference?

I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning