Quotes About Sympathy

Si la simpatía de los amigos no altera los hechos, por lo menos los hace más soportables.

Grief is as contagious as a yawn.

Amazing how quickly someone else's problems become yours. Trouble creates a vacuum into which the rest of us get sucked.

Fifty percent of the local citizens are sympathetic and the other fifty are pissed as hell. Does the problem get solved? No, it does not.

Contributing to the difference in my attitude was the fact that my rage had begun to bore me, and my long whiny tale of woe had become tedious even to my own ears. As much fun as I'd had being irate, the drama had become repetitive. I could probably still wring sympathy from a stranger, but the recital had taken on a certain rote quality that lacked energy and conviction.

Learning to love and be loved is, in effect, about learning to tune in to our emotions so that we know what we need from a partner and expressing those desires openly, in a way that evokes sympathy and support from him or her.

Feeling connected, feeling with someone goes hand in hand with feeling for that person.

The only thing I wanted was for her to understand. Somebody to let out a big sigh and say, You poor thing, I know how you feel. Given a choice, I preferred someone to understand my situation, even though she was helpless to fix it, rather than the other way around. But that's just me. Right

In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional.

I'd say, "Jesus wept cause he's trapped in there with missus, like us.

They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional. I was the girl abandoned by her mother. I was the girl who kneeled on grits. What a special case I was.

every pain in this world wants to be witnessed

His head was on one side, listening to me, and that was such sweeness to me, that he listened intently. No one, it seemed, has ever listened like he does.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...

Susan Beth Pfeffer

I tried to imagine her as the mother of a child, but simply could not. I felt sorry for any offspring she might produce.

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours. Who would we be if we could not sympathize with those who are not us or ours? Who would we be if we could not forget ourselves, at least some of the time? Who would we be if we could not learn? Forgive? Become something other than we are?

It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion.

It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or arouses a necessary sympathy.

So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence.

I'm heading over to visit Tess for some tea and sympathy. I don't like tea, Ollie said. What's sympathy taste like? Natalie laughed and ruffled his hair, then got back in the car. Like a melted marshmallow with chocolate sauce.

If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.