Compassion Quote by Andrew Sean Greer

“Those who don't love themselves as they are rarely love life as it is either. Most people have come to prefer certain of life's…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

— Conrad Black

Because I'm terrified that if you could see the depth of my pain, the extent of my sorrow, you could never love the whole…

— Scarlet Koop

It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they…

— Christopher Columbus

“Most survivors tend to be the care-giver rather than the care-receiver. We tend to be good at being spouses and parents, anticipating our loved…

— Beverly Engel

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sympathy is what we need not required,and if we do neither one we would become a happy soul.

— Kshitiz Sirohi

There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in…

— Rick Bass

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

— George Orwell

“Believe me, I had my share of "why" questions. I turned my eyes upward again and again , and in my heart I asked…

— Art Berg