Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

I'm very empathetic - that might be one of my superpowers.

Pity enlarges the heart.

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

The dew of compassion is a tear.

I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

My mother taught me caring and sensitivity towards the feelings of others, animals as well as humans. She gave me much good, practical advice for getting through life.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.