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  ...of another world where there is no other law than the liberty of love--another world where there are no barriers because there is no flesh. For nothing inspires us more with hope and faith in another world than the impossibility of our love truly fructifying in this world of flesh and of appearances.
And what is maternal love but compassion for the weak, helpless, defenceless infant that craves the mother's milk and the comfort of her breast? And woman's love is all maternal.
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.   Men aflame with a burning charity towards their neighbours are thus enkindled because they have touched the depth of their own misery, their own apparentiality, their own nothingness, and then, turning their newly opened eyes upon their fellows, they have seen that they also are miserable, apparential, condemned to nothingness, and they have pitied them and loved them.
Man yearns to be loved, or, what is the same thing, to be pitied. Man wishes others to feel and share his hardships...   Unamuno, Miguel De

Excerpt from Tragic Sense Of Life · This quote is tagged Pity · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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