Quotes About Sympathy

It's easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.

a nadie le importan los problemas ajenos y que los dolores callados acaban por diluirse.

The man and the little girl looked at each other, recognizing themselves in the other's eyes.

In Chile it is bad manners to acknowledge that you're overly satisfied, because that can irritate the less fortunate, which is why for us the correct answer to the question "How are you?" is "So-so." That is an opening for sympathizing with the other speaker's situation.

There they could weep at leisure, unburdening themselves of their own troubles as they wept for someone else's death.

lo trataba con la simpatía distraída que normalmente se reserva para las mascotas ajenas.

If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that you'll get anywhere. The hardest thing is dealing with business people who have nothing to do with your art. They could care less that you're up at 4:30 in the morning writing a joke. Don't expect any sympathy from anybody.

My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

With 'Dawn,' I wanted the slick look; I wanted to bring out the nature of the shopping center, the retail displays, the mannequins. There are times when maybe you reflect that the mannequins are more attractive but less real - less sympathetic, even - than the zombies. Put those kinds of images side by side, and you raise all sorts of questions.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man.

In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.

He was one of those men whose constitutional inability to make small talk forfeits all one's sympathy, and makes one think that social grace is sometimes a moral duty.

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

In time of great anxiety we can draw power from our friends. We should at such times, however, avoid friends who sympathize too deeply, who give us pity rather than strength.

There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him, interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living.

The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

1 loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while we boast to the others. -Logan Pearsall Smith No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.