Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
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.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Faith is a passionate intuition.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.