kindness Quotes

“it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:pain kindness

“No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of the child.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:love kindness

“Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake—especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:love death kindness

“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:friendship kindness

“no man grows rich by kindness.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

topic:wealth kindness

“to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:love kindness

“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:time kindness

“If you’ve ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you’ll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Kind? . . . How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

topic:boredom kindness

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