Quotes About Sympathy

The danger of sympathizing with the stranger is the possibility of becoming a stranger.

In A Mercy I labored to identify the journey from sympathetic race relations to violent ones fostered by religion.

Know him only as a man of God who feels the suffering of others. And

You're hurting. That's all right. Losing your pop is reason to hurt. But it's not a reason to hurt others. Keep that in mind.

What if he'd had to be put down?

A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of our friends.

Pity is a poison. -Kunti

Oprah had no sympathy for welfare recipients and frequently berated them. 'I was a welfare daughter, just like you….How did you let yourselves become welfare mothers? Why did you choose this? I didn't.

The man I have loved as a brother, whose heart has ever been brimming with sympathy and friendship, cannot possibly partake of even a passive partnership in the butchery of innocent people.

Sympathy, not pity. There's a huge difference, and we widows appreciate it, let me tell you.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

E' cattiva la gente che non ha provato il dolore, perchè quando si prova il dolore, non si può più voler male a nessuno

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

No one ever does notice the lives of others unless they affect their own lives, Sofia reflected.

We can try to balance sympathy and skepticism. And then we can learn to hold our conclusions lightly, lightly enough so that we can let them go if justice demands that we do.

She cackles and her accent is so thick that I feel bad for the words coming out of her mouth.

her accent is so thick that I feel bad for the words coming out of her mouth.

I pity the man she marries.

Teach me to feel another's woe To hide the fault I see That mercy I to others shew That mercy shew to me.95 –1787

Zara, sympathy is just a good excuse to buy greeting cards and make sorry eyes and secretly gloat over how glad you are that you aren't the person whose crap is hanging out for everyone to see.

The idea of educating the Negroes after the Civil War was largely a prompting of philanthropy. Their white neighbors failed to assume this responsibility. These black people had been liberated as a result of a sectional conflict out of which their former owners had emerged as victims. From this class, then, the freedmen could not expect much sympathy or cooperation in the effort to prepare themselves to figure as citizens of a modern republic.

When a dog is drowning, everyone offers him drink.

Yet it would be a failure of imagination if we were to start out-as today's histories sometimes do-by simply judging people of the past for having outlooks that are not like our own. Rather, we must first try to enter sympathetically into an earlier world and to understand its people. Once we do that we will be in a far better position both to learn from them and to evaluate their outlooks critically.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.