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title: "7 Sympathy Empathy Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Sympathy Empathy quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Sympathy Empathy sayings and thoughts."
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> [“This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-galaxy/this-is-what-differentiates-sympathy-from-empathy-no-matter-how-much/)

[Jackson Galaxy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-galaxy/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b6/jackson-galaxy-33400_empathy_this-is-what-differentiates-sympathy-fro_454124.jpg)

> [“It was sympathy to them, not empathy. I had to remain silent out of fear of discovery and, as such, being fired…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-benedict/it-was-sympathy-to-them-not-empathy-i-had-to-remain-silent-out-of/)

[Charles Benedict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-benedict/)

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> [I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hazel-hawke/i-don-t-think-of-compassion-as-sympathy-but-rather-as-empathy-an/)

[Hazel Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hazel-hawke/)

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> [“The human route to sympathy or empathy is a clumsy one but it's all we've got. To understand the consequences of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-human-route-to-sympathy-or-empathy-is-a-clumsy-one-but-it-s-all/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“There is something profoundly cynical, my friends, in the notion of paradise after death. The lure is evasion. The promise is excusative.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-erikson/there-is-something-profoundly-cynical-my-friends-in-the-notion-of/)

[Steven Erikson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-erikson/)

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> [It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-coudert/it-is-characteristic-to-believe-that-those-in-need-are-given-to-that/)

[Jo Coudert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-coudert/)

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> [You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-carmichael/you-have-to-have-sympathy-for-and-an-empathy-with-a-character-in/)

[Laura Carmichael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-carmichael/)

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