Sympathy Quotes

Sympathy Quote of the day

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

Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!

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

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

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

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

When you know the truth about a person then they become real to you, not just a face that you can forget.

There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.

Your world is just as empty as your heart!

Why do humans always look at these things from the wrong perspective? Predators deserve our sympathy, too.

The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.

Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

I could really use someone else's smile today.

Before you assume, learn. Before you judge, understand. Before you hurt, feel. Before you say, think.

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

Without empathy, there'd be no harmony in diversity

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human beingIs forced to fight against himself.

The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.

This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

I felt ashamed for having judged him so harshly without knowing the real boy. His one offense against me―goaded by Charlie’s bullying character―was easy to forgive.

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

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.

I recognized exactly where she was—that state where you’re able to hold it together as long as absolutely no one talks to you or touches you with any amount of sympathy.

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

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

Tell any grizzled old cutthroat a sob story about a double-cross and a broken heart and he'll eat right out of your hand.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

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.