Quotes About Sympathy

I realized that there was no point in denying oneself a pleasure because it was denied another, in refusing to allow oneself to be happy because someone else was unhappy.

For the first time I began to perceive that true sympathy cannot be switched on and off like an electric current, that anyone that identifies himself with the fate of another is robbed to some extent of his own freedom.

Söz konusu baÅŸkalar?n?n derdi olunca nas?l da daha zeki, daha nesnel oluruz.

Kay?ts?z kalan için baÅŸkalar?n?n uyar?lm??l??? en hoÅŸ izlencedir.

Most people have little imagination. If something doesn't affect them directly, does not drive a shar wedge straight into their minds, it hardly excites them at all, but if an incident, however slight, takes place before their eyes, close enough for the senses to perceive it, it instantly rouses them to extremes of passion. They compensate for the infrequency of their sympathy, as it were, by exhibiting disproportionate and excessive vehemence.

anyone who identifies himself with the fate of another is robbed to some extent of his own freedom.

Çünkü kay?ts?z kalan için baÅŸkalar?n?n uyar?lm??l??? en hoÅŸ izlencedir.

Personally I take more satisfaction in understanding people than in passing judgement on them.

The will-to-power, when it can find no outlet, is directed inwards; the frustrated impulse plays havoc with the sufferer's own nerves. Before puberty, Mary had not infrequently had convulsive seizures and had given other signs of excessive nervous excitability. When it became obvious to her that such attacks aroused sympathy and attention, she began consciously or unconsciously (the border line is hard to define) to cultivate these hysterical fits.

when she got the call, poor girl.

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled.

Truth without compassion is Cruelty.

Poor Petey. I'd like to say I could almost feel a tender spot for poor Petey, but the truth is I'd rather feel at the tender spot on his head and give it a poke.

It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set.

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

Apathy is the opposite of caring. If you're apathetic towards something, then it isn't something you want.

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.

Livingstone had said sympathy was no substitute for action. That was an essential brick in Bosch's wall. He had built himself as a man of action and, at the moment when the integrity of his life's work had been called into question by a man on death row, he had chosen to turn his sympathy for Elizabeth Clayton into action.

I felt sympathy for her but not too much. Idealism dies hard with everybody.

Livingstone had said sympathy was no substitute for action.

She was pretty pissed off, in fact, that she was under arrest and not going to be able to get her next fix in jail." "You don't sound like you have a lot of sympathy." "I do to an extent. I've dealt with addicts all my life, including in my own family, and it's hard to balance sympathy for them with the damage they do to their families and others.