All 9 Uses of
compassion
in
The Fountainhead
- The kindliness was so great that it made their love seem small and mean, because only something contemptible could evoke such immensity of compassion.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- …Oh, he's the type of man for whom one can feel no compassion?†
Chpt 2.8
- Compassion is a wonderful thing.†
Chpt 2.8
- You don't have to hold your stomach, your heart or your spirit up—when you feel compassion.†
Chpt 2.8
- Compassion is the greatest virtue.†
Chpt 2.8
- There's got to be suffering in the world, else how would we be virtuous and feel compassion?†
Chpt 2.8
- It did not look like the countenance of men who watch the agony of another with a secret pleasure, uplifted by the sight of a beggar who needs their compassion; it did not bear the cast of the hungry soul that feeds upon another's humiliation.†
Chpt 2.11
- For the first time, she looked attentive; not compassionate; but, at least, attentive.†
Chpt 3.2
- They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love.†
Chpt 3.4
Definition:
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(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help