Quotes About Sympathy

In dealing with newspaper people, whether they are white or black, there is no way of getting their sympathy and support like that of actually knowing the individual men, of meeting and talking with them frequently and frankly, and of keeping them in touch with everything you do or intend to do.

Mitrofanii frowned—he found women's tears hard to bear, especially if they were not shed out of self-indulgence but for some substantial reason, as now.

The key thing is to be "Conservative in principle but Liberal in sympathy".

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

I was of the opinion that a good heart was not money in the bank. You couldn't buy a bowl of rice with sympathy, I used to say. But two baht worth of rice with love at the supper table is a feast, and I know, because we starved on roast pork.

Newspapers widen the sphere of our sympathies. They make their readers enter into the joys and sorrows of thousands of whom they would else know nothing, and for whom they would otherwise care nothing.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

When a member of a unit (military or non-military) loses his life, or when a member has a death in the family, it's the duty of the leader to take sincere action in expressing personal condolences, sympathy or any other appropriate steps considering the circumstances.

Frankly, when it comes to expressing sympathy and compassion, women win over men hands down!

Blind, that's what I am. I never opened my eyes. I never thought to look into people's hearts, I looked only in their faces.

Had her conduct been more friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her. She was a pretty little thing.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." — Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

Walter looked as if he had been raised on fish food: his eyes, as blue as Dill Harris's, were red-rimmed and watery.

until you climb into his skin and walk around it (Lee 27)

Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.

So what's wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

Person A understand Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A.

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.

We're on the same wavelength. We're connected that way, even if I'm away from her.

If sympathy was all it took to clean up shit, I'd have 50 times as much sympathy as anybody else

I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy.

Crying for someone else is nothing to apologize about," I told him. "Especially someone you care for, someone who's passed away

Das ist schön bei den Deutschen: Keiner ist so verrückt, dass er nicht einen noch Verrückteren fände, der ihn versteht.

our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.