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Quotes About Sympathy

I suppose I should've felt sorry for her, but I'd rather be sorry for someone who never had luck at all than for someone whose extreme luck ran out unexpectedly.
~ Naomi Novik
The efficient leader leads by encouraging, and not by trying to instil fear in the hearts of his followers. The leader who tries to impress his followers with his "authority" comes within the category of leadership through force. If a leader is a real leader, he will have no need to advertise that fact except by his conduct— his sympathy, understanding, fairness, and a demonstration that he knows his job.
~ Napoleon Hill
Thoughts which a man deliberately places in his own mind, and encourages with sympathy, and with which he mixes any one or more of the emotions, constitute the motivating forces, which direct and control his every movement, act, and deed!
~ Napoleon Hill
Nobody can feel more compassion for a fibber than another fibber.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In that case I feel sorry for you.' 'Then perform an act of charity.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You're in love, he mumbled, full of emotion, patting me on the back. Poor kid.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Nadie tiene tanta compasión con un embustero como alguien de su condición.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I feel kind of bad for him," I said. "All he wants is to be left alone. I wish we could help him somehow." I sighed. "But we do have to check out his story." "I don't know how we can check out whether he was at Rainbow Lake," Ashley said. "Who would we ask--the fish?
~ Carol Ellis
She is always there for each and every one of us, particles of atoms, cells, animals, and human animals. We are precious in Her sight. She understands and remembers us with unending sympathy. She inspires us to live creatively, joyfully, and in harmony with others in the web of life. Yet choice is ours.
~ Carol P. Christ
Poor old Rhett, Sawyer mumbled. What about Rhett? I just feel sorry for him if he does come to Burnt Boot. He won't have a pretty little redhead to watch his back.
~ Carolyn Brown
Matt was grinning, like he thought it was funny. Not an ounce of sympathy in him. "You can't do that banging-your-head-on-the-table thing on TV.
~ Carrie Vaughn
Because he had a mashed thumb like Ludie's?
~ Carson McCullers
Even now, missing Earth, he felt sympathy only for those aboard Gypsy, those orphaned, damaged, disaffected, dispossessed, Aspergerish souls whose anger at that great abstraction, The World, was more truly an anger at all those fortunate enough to be unlike them. We were all so young. How can you be so young, and so hungry for, and yet so empty of life?
~ Carter Scholz
Their hearts began to swell with the pity that one feels for a fellow being who has lost both his way and his sense of purpose.
~ Caryl Phillips
Really,' she exclaimed, stumping into the kitchen and plonking herself down on the nearest chair, 'this place is getting worse than Nightmare Abbey. Whatever next?' A grammatical purist might have wondered why Miss Bentley hadn't said 'whoever' rather than 'whatever' but the former headteacher belonged to the Superintendent Leeyes school of taking bad news as a personal affront rather than as an occasion for sympathy for the victim.
~ Catherine Aird
You are a sad, sad little man and you have my pity. — Buzz Lightyear
~ Cathy East Dubowski
Distance is all I can give someone I can't truly fathom.
~ Cecelia Ahern
I know you mustn't think that I understand, that I'm a heartless bitch who couldn't possibly understand, but I do. Believe me, I do. I understand because I'm going through it too.
~ Cecelia Ahern
It's a natural thing for a human to feel sympathy for another animal who's in distress, but dogs don't need our sympathy. They need our leadership.
~ Cesar Millan
No matter how much sympathy I have for you, it won't heal you faster or slower. You're not a victim of cosmic proportions. There are millions of us. That doesn't make your personal struggle less. That just increases your
~ Charlaine Harris
The point is, that doesn't make any difference." I looked Tamsin straight in the eyes. "No matter how much sympathy I have for you, it won't heal you faster or slower. You're not a victim of cosmic proportions. There are millions of us. That doesn't make your personal struggle less. That just increases your knowledge of pain in this world.
~ Charlaine Harris
When I met with Anna Chancellor, I knew she was a kindred spirit. We got one another.
~ Toby Stephens
With everybody that I've met, there's always been something I've learned about them that I like.
~ Nick Carter
To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.
~ David Zayas