Quotes About Sympathy

Aquella noche tuve una repentina antipatía por los tanques y una apasionada simpatía por el cielo.

Qué alivio saber que una desgracia le ha ocurrido al prójimo y no a nosotros!

Among men, Hinnissy, wet eye manes dhry heart.

We look at each other with shy relief. It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each other in the wild.

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

So I shall just imagine myself for a fortnight or so at one side of the fireplace of a country cottage, with a sympathetic soul opposite me. And I shall go on talking, in a low voice while the sea sounds in the distance and overhead the great black flood of wind polishes the bright stars.

It is not always the events that touch us personally that affect us the most.

I understand Neverfell, you see. For Neverfell, it is as if other people are part of her. When she believes they are in pain, it hurts her, like a wound in a pretend limb. So right now she is in pain for all the people she saw in the Undercity.

A suffering person does not need a lecture—he needs a listener.

God is not bound by a body, yet He is a Person. He feels, He thinks, He loves, He forgives, He sympathizes with the problems and sorrows that we face.

He went to the wedding at Cana as well as to the home of Mary and Martha when Lazarus died. He wept with those who wept and rejoiced with those who rejoiced.

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.

When he's happy, it makes you happy too.

The practice of sympathy may mean the cultivation of similar tastes, though that will almost naturally follow from the fellowship. But to cultivate similar tastes does not imply either absorption of one of the partners, or the identity of both. Rather, part of the charm of the intercourse lies in the difference, which exists in the midst of agreement.

We must have been struck with the brilliancy of our own conversation and the profundity of our own thoughts, when we shared them with one, with whom we were in sympathy at the time. The brilliancy was not ours; it was the reflex action which was the result of the communion.

Sympathy is not a quality merely needed in adversity. It is needed as much when the sun shines.

The sweetest and most stable pleasures also are never selfish. They are derived from fellowship, from common tastes, and mutual sympathy.

Man is naturally a sympathetic and a social animal. He has, no doubt, strong, self-preserving, self-asserting, and self-advancing instincts, which, if left without counteraction, would naturally lead to isolation or mutual hostility, and ultimate extermination; but these instincts of isolated individualism are met by yet stronger instincts of sympathy, love, and fellowship, in the ascendency of which the true humanity of man as distinguished from tigerhood and spiderhood consists.

Cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from ye door.

Terror in the house does roar, But Pity stands before the door.

Bonnie was so drunk she could hardly walk. ... I had always felt sorry for her, having to live the life she was living, never a minute's peace. She had often told me she was happier when she had something to drink. So I did not blame her for staying drunk most of the time, if it made her feel better.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

the opposite of love is not anger—it is apathy.

Many people can see the pain of others but can not feel it till they are there