Quotes About Compassion

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he'd tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.