Compassion Tears Quotes

#1. The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.

Robert Dodsley

#2. From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. You are a most effective killer, Michel. Is it true you wept like a child when they killed your sister? That you cried out in agony as if the sword had pierced your own heart? Such compassion. Does your handiwork not bring you to tears as well?

P.A. Minyard

#4. Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess.

Aisha Mirza

#5. To be a rainbow in someone's cloud is commendable, but I prefer to be the rain because it dampens cheeks and washes away tears.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more completely unintelligible than the reasoning that is bred of tears.

Halldor Laxness

#7. If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.

Billy Joel

#8. And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.

Nicholas Sparks

#9. Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

William Wordsworth

#10. The only monsters in this world are those who pass for human, who cast shadows and are reflected in mirrors, who smile and speak of compassion and shed convincing tears.

Dean Koontz

#11. I was having a great time, enjoying the best summer of my life, fucked up. Fucked up is good.

Rinker Buck

#12. When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.

Victor Hugo

#13. The whole idea is that if you turn your amp up to 10, you should still be able to play at a whisper - you've got to learn to control your hands

Mike Bloomfield

#14. To become like the Father whose only authority is compassion, I have to shed countless tears and so prepare my heart to receive anyone, whatever their journey has been, and forgive them from that heart.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#15. I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.

Arthur Rimbaud

#16. If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.

Dalai Lama

#17. Kitsch is the translation of the stupidity of received ideas into the language of beauty and feeling. It moves us to tears of compassion for ourselves, for the banality of what we think and feel.

Milan Kundera

#18. I completely failed to see the value in memorizing the stupid periodic table of elements.

Inara Scott

#19. Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion.

Jim George

#20. The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#21. If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

Douglas Wilder

#22. No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.

Anthony Liccione

#23. The hand of death touches every love that the Descenders profess for all and sundry, tears also streaming down the face with "compassion" written all over it.

Ken Wilber

#24. My heart, far too sensitivefor this human world.My heart, so easily wounded, sheds rose tears of compassion.

Mary Summer Rain

#25. We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

Sydney J. Harris

#26. Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!

Oswald J. Smith

#27. Earth should suspect a man who has no tears of compassion and eject into the outer space until he learns humility. Outer space and death might be of the same origin, where one chances upon egolessness just before lifelessness. Earth only asks for egolessness.

Adam Kovacevic

#28. Nothing is discovered without God's intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves.

Charles Dickens

#29. Art feasts upon its maker

David Mitchell

#30. Your tears for others will float you closer toward God.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

Elizabeth Goudge

#32. The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.

Joseph Bruchac

#33. The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else's suffering flaring in your own nerves. Pity is a projection of, a lament for, the self. All those people weeping in the mirror of your misery? Their tears are real, but they are not for you.

Christian Wiman