Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - F Scott Fitzgerald - Jim Davidson - Mahatma Gandhi - William Cowper - Charles Darwin - Albert Einstein - Euripides
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Human sympathy has its limits. F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
There’s people starving in the Third World. Fuck ’em. Jim Davidson, British right-wing comedian on stage
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. Mahatma Gandhi
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds. William Cowper, The Task
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people – first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. Albert Einstein, My World View
The man who melts
With social sympathy, though not allied,
Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen. Euripides, Orestes l846