Quotes About Compassion

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Sympathy is a sweet thing.

There's a lot of sympathy, but some people in America don't care. They think Syria is a very faraway place and that it's none of their business.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.