Quotes About Compassion

The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

Intercession is about putting ourselves in other's shoes or having sympathy with others. But intercessions are about having the mind of God and see things through His perspective

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.

If everyone realized the value of life, the world would be peaceful. The meaning of these words, "Do unto others as you would have them, do unto you, " would be understood: It would be practiced.

Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it

empathy is more powerful than sympathy

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

Sympathy of victims and humanity of us question the stronghold of integrity towards justice.

...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.

Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.

Love is the end of sympathy.

The man who melts With social sympathy though not allied Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

He watch'd and wept he pray'd and felt for all.