Quotes About Sympathy

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

It's better to break a man's leg than his heart.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

Other men's pains are easily borne.

Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.

As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

Compassion--that's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps man ahead of them.

What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.

Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

I never wanted to be a man. I feel sorry for them.