Quotes About Compassion

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!

True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

I had no sympathy for drama queens.

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.

Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.

But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.

Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.