Quotes about Compassion
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
— Victor Hugo
If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
— Victor Hugo
The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.
— Victor Hugo
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
— Victor Hugo
This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.
— Victor Hugo
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.
— Victor Hugo
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
— Victor Hugo
The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.
— Victor Hugo
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
Because things are not agreeable, said Jean Valjean, that is no reason for being unjust towards God.
— Victor Hugo
Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?
— Victor Hugo
To love is to act.
— Victor Hugo