All 20 Uses of
compassion
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- But at last they left him alone and gave up taunting him with being a "regular girl," and what's more they looked upon it with compassion as a weakness.†
Chpt 1 *
- In this way, it all takes place without the compassionate intervention of the Church, for in many cases there are no churches there at all, for though ecclesiastics and splendid church buildings remain, the churches themselves have long ago striven to pass from Church into State and to disappear in it completely.†
Chpt 2
- Am I to understand that you only agreed with her from compassion for her invalid state, because you didn't want to irritate her by contradiction?"†
Chpt 5
- He moves silently in their midst with a gentle smile of infinite compassion.†
Chpt 5
- He looks with compassion, and His lips once more softly pronounce, 'Maiden, arise!' and the maiden arises.†
Chpt 5
- Some of those present may perhaps have inwardly noticed it, only to reflect that the anticipation of decay and corruption from the body of such a saint was an actual absurdity, calling for compassion (if not a smile) for the lack of faith and the frivolity it implied.†
Chpt 7
- She spoke compassionately, as though she felt very near to him now in his grief.†
Chpt 8
- For all his pretended compassion for Mitya, Trifon Borissovitch had hidden half a dozen bottles of champagne on that last occasion, and had picked up a hundred-rouble note under the table, and it had remained in his clutches.†
Chpt 8
- "I am beginning to understand you, Dmitri Fyodorovitch," the prosecutor said slowly, in a soft and almost compassionate tone.†
Chpt 9
- He never found out who this kind man was; perhaps one of the peasant witnesses, or Nikolay Parfenovitch's little secretary, had compassionately thought to put a pillow under his head; but his whole soul was quivering with tears.†
Chpt 9
- "Well, God bless you, you'd better stay, then," Grushenka decided in her grief, smiling compassionately at him.†
Chpt 11
- Intense, infinite compassion overwhelmed him instantly.†
Chpt 11
- He positively disliked him; at most, felt sometimes a compassion for him, and even that was mixed with great contempt, almost repugnance.†
Chpt 11
- Do you know, Alyosha," Ivan added in an intensely earnest and confidential tone, "I should be awfully glad to think that it was he and not I." "He has worn you out," said Alyosha, looking compassionately at his brother.†
Chpt 11
- That lady, who had long watched his career with compassion, gave him the most judicious advice, to give up his dissipated life, his unseemly love-affair, the waste of his youth and vigor in pot-house debauchery, and to set off to Siberia to the gold-mines: 'that would be an outlet for your turbulent energies, your romantic character, your thirst for adventure.'†
Chpt 12
- Would you believe it, he tells us that he leapt down out of pity, out of compassion, to see whether he could do anything for him.†
Chpt 12
- Was that a moment to show compassion?†
Chpt 12
- This purgatory of the spirit, this animal thirst for self-preservation, these humiliating moments of the human soul, are awful, and sometimes arouse horror and compassion for the criminal even in the lawyer.†
Chpt 12
- And it was perhaps just because he had escaped from the temptation to kill his father, because he had a clear conscience and was rejoicing at not having killed him, that he was capable of a pure feeling, the feeling of pity and compassion, and leapt off the fence a minute later to the assistance of Grigory after he had, in his excitement, knocked him down.†
Chpt 12
- It is true that there was a sentinel at the other end of the corridor, and there was a grating over the window, so that Varvinsky could be at ease about the indulgence he had shown, which was not quite legal, indeed; but he was a kind-hearted and compassionate young man.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(compassion) sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help