Quotes About Sympathy

You are invulnerable, you have no Achilles' heel. You will go on, and when you have prevailed You can say: at this point many a one has failed. But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.

Nothing human disgusts me unless its unkind

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

I suppose I'll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think. Not sympathetic, but considerate of others. I always gave up my place in line. I loaned out pencils and paper, or let people take them from me. I never reported a sexual assault.

As they were carting him off on a gurney, all I could think was, I wish that was me.

Es gibt einen warmherzigen und sanften Spott, der auf engster Vertrautheit beruht, einer, die man nicht einzugestehen hat - einen Spott, der aus nichts anderem besteht als dem Bedürfnis, ein Übermaß an Sympathie aufzulösen.

I wish- I wish I could dry these tears, I wish I could make this better for you. But I don't know how.

Tengo horror de que me estimen por lo que no soy; que una persona como usted simpatice por un sucio malentendido.

He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.

Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

Max smiled, the smile of comfort, the one you give to someone who's made a big mistake and is suffering the consequences, the one that doesn't help but shows you understand.

We were all close to communism at the time," Bohm recalled. Actually, until 1940–41, Bohm didn't have much sympathy for the Communist Party. But then, with the collapse of France, it seemed to him that no one but the communists had the will to resist the Nazis. Indeed, many Europeans appeared to prefer the Nazis to the Russians.

It's like he can't bear for me to be unhappy. Or maybe it's just that he doesn't want to be unhappy.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

He had tears in his eyes even as he told her not to cry.

Ghum-khaur: devorador-de-mágoas, aquele que absorve o desgosto do enlutado.

The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.

It is hard to find a country friendlier to Israel than Canada these days. No other country in the world has demonstrated such a full understanding of us.

I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.

It is the rarest of qualities: to feel something—anything—for someone beside yourself. And in my experience it is rarer still to have empathy for people you don't know.

Lastly, matters of superstition and magic (in the common acceptation of the word) must not be entirely omitted. For although such things lie buried deep beneath a mass of falsehood and fable, yet they should be looked into a little. For it may be that in some of them some natural operation lies at the bottom, as in fascination, strengthening of the imagination, sympathy of things at a distance, transmission of impressions from spirit to spirit no less than from body to body, and the like.

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.