Quotes About Sympathy

Yet I had become very attached to George Roc. I liked him, not for the joy of playing with him, not for some talent that made him stand out from the rest, not even for his kindness: above all, I liked him because he was always sad and because the things he told me caused me a degree of pain.....George Roc was the first being that I'd met who saw and felt himself unhappy.

A life worth living is one of compassion. And a life of compassion will include many tears.

up of feeling as the next man, including a brute of

life worth living is one of compassion. And a life of compassion will include many tears.

Y yo, que siempre he sentido una especie de callada simpatía por la gente que despotrica contra su propio país, me puse de inmediato a conversar con él.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others. With

Y Laverde lo admiraba como se admira desde la simpatía y la experiencia: la simpatía de saber que uno también es admirado y la experiencia de saber que uno tiene la que al otro le falta.

La empatía por la desgracia ajena tiene un límite. Pasado el cual comienzas a sentir que su infortunio es un acto de maldad, cuya víctima eres tú.

La empatía por la desgracia ajena tiene un límite. Pasado el cual comienzas a sentir que su infortunio es una acto de maldad, cuya víctima eres tú.

It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?

He didn't know what I meant. Intellectually he did, I think. But not in the way we understand it." "Lucky him." "He just listened. He was sympathetic and nonjudgmental." "That's good." "Is it? If someone you care about tells you they are constantly thinking of ending it all, shouldn't you be unsympathetic and very judgmental?

optimism of his class. It was a world not unlike the one Edwin Hall had provided for his family. Yet Roosevelt was able to sympathize with the downtrodden and meant

You can have all the sympathy in the world," she said, "just don't feel like you have to wrap your life around it.

Ô Terre, ô terre, ô race humaine, / vous me faites bien de la peine.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

Always, you miss all the players when they are injured.

To be honest with you, it really doesn't get me excited to see anybody get injured.

First and foremost, you never want to see anyone get injured.

You can't understand a character intellectually, you have to become one with its emotional core.

The obvious pain in her eyes moved him. For a moment he wanted to gather her into his arms and soothe her but he was sure she wouldn't welcome such a gesture.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

What about compassion? 

There is no adulation for a failed revolutionary, only a sympathy akin to pity or even contempt, not so much because he has failed but because he has lived so long.

I will share the pain of your doing, if you will share the joy of my Undoing.