Quotes About Compassion

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

I have come to know Diana better than anyone else, so my sympathy will always lie with her. But I also have a huge appreciation of Charles, and what they both had to endure in that marriage. I don't think you can pick a side.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

Sympathy is important, but it rings hollow if not followed by action.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.

I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring.

What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.

I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?

I try to photograph with love and sympathy.

I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.

I would certainly not support Trump in any way shape or form, but I want to have sympathy.

You can't have empathy for somebody that's gone through something you haven't - because, definitionally, you can't. But you can feel for them and have sympathy for them. And that's what this country needs to practice more. It's about realizing that you do come from a different place.

My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.

Feeling alone while you're going through something actually exacerbates the symptoms of it.

No one should have to go to school with a bulletproof backpack or be afraid to go to synagogue or church or a restaurant.

Down syndrome kids can learn. Like Corky. That's the way I feel about it... For those kids who have Down syndrome, to give them a chance.

It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

Back in the early '40s, they used to call Down syndrome infants and babies 'mongoloids.' It's very hard for parents.

I'm actually a huge fan of changing every single 'anti-Trump' sentiment to 'pro-human rights' because they are synonymous.

Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.