Quotes About Sympathy

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.

he had the sudden thought of holding Donna Maria's hands in his, to rest his forehead against her heart and feel her console him wordlessly, mercifully. That need for pity, refuge, sympathy, was like the last piece of the soul that did not resign itself to perishing.

Why are you crying?" "I was reading.

She feels very sorry for her mother because people who don't wake up can't go downstairs to the bookstore in the morning.

anthropomorphize

Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights." "Oh." His polite tone had returned. "I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction." He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him. "Especially," I added, "as I've grown taller.

Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.

Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

You know how that feels?

A heart that has lost knows every other heart that has lost. Late and soon, loss is all the same.

Mr. Ferris didn't say anything the whole time. He sat next to me and listened. And when I finished, I looked at him. He was crying. I'm not lying. He was crying. I don't think it was because how hard I hit him. I know how the Black-Backed Gull feels when he looks up into the sky. Maybe, somehow, Mr. Ferris does too.

Maybe I just need to try harder to understand the way she sees things.

Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration. Children wish for so much, but can arrange so little of their own lives, which are so often dominated by adults without sympathy for the children's priorities. That is why children have a much greater need for daydreams than adults do. And because their lives have been relatively limited they have a greater need for material from which to form daydreams.

The sense of humor is essentially cruel, and therefore really kind people never have any at all.

There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady. Like cures like; and for this hunt, my malady becomes my most desired health.

Aye aye, sir." Willie saluted and emerged into the sunlight, through the one loophole that military wisdom can never quite button up—the sympathy of the downtrodden for each other.

the one loophole that military wisdom can never quite button up—the sympathy of the downtrodden for each other.

of all creatures that breathe and move on earth none is more to be pitied than a man.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

King's stress on love and nonviolence was powerfully effective in building a sympathetic following throughout the nation, among whites as well as blacks.