Quotes About Sympathy

Harvey Hill expressed no regrets for his mulishness and no sympathy for what Lee was seeking to accomplish. "Genl. Lee is venturing upon a very hazardous movement," he told his wife; "and one that must be fruitless, if not disastrous.

Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I've ever grasped how much pain she's really in.

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs at you.

I feel jerked around. I feel sympathetic. I feel abused. It's almost harder to see Nathaniel on the good days than the bad, because you let yourself be deceived into thinking he's going to stay that way...And I can't just walk away. Part of it is the desire to follow through on something that's become more important and meaningful in my life, and to satisfy the human instinct to help someone less fortunate. And maybe there's something more.

Compassion existed when and only when one could step outside oneself, to suddenly see the bars from inside the cage.

When you're watching somebody read your material and they smile and nod, you know you've found that place where your experience and their experience match, even though they aren't the same exact experience.

Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi.

Il n'est rien qui tente mes larmes que les larmes.

MERCY. It was a word she'd rarely encountered

nervous sufferers are the most irritable, that is, have the most sensibility: tenuousness of fiber, delicacy of organism; but they also have an easily impressionable soul, an unquiet heart, too strong a sympathy for what happens around them.

This whole speech, extremely silly, tactless and probably politically dangerous, made Pavel Iosifovich shake with rage, but, strange as it might seem, it could be seen from the eyes of the crowd of customers that had gathered that it had aroused sympathy in very many people!

He who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

Ali taj koji voli mora dijeliti sudbinu onoga koga voli.

The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egoistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment

Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weights so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, with someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up. Another guy comes up to him, pulls a long face, shakes his head, and says: I know just what you mean.

not even one's own pain weigh so heavy as the pain one feels with someone , for someone

First he sympathized with Cuba, then with China, and when the cruelty of their regimes began to appall him, he resigned himself with a sigh to a sea of words with no weight and no resemblance to life.

Porque es así y vale para todos: nunca sabremos por qué irritamos a la gente, qué es lo que nos hace simpáticos, qué es lo que noshace ridículos; nuestra propia imagen es para nosotros nuestro mayor misterio

To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.

in languages that derive from Latin compassion means: we cannot look on coolly as others suffer; or, we sympathize with those who suffer

Ni siquiera el propio dolor es tan pesado como el dolor sentido con alguien, por alguien, para alguien, multiplicado por la imaginación, prolongado en mil ecos.