Quotes About Sympathy

The occasional kindness will spare you all sorts of trouble down the road.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

Je n'ai jamais été jeune, parce que personne n'a voulu l'être avec moi.

Oh! Je sais bien que la compassion d'autrui soulage un moment, je ne la méprise point. Mais elle ne désalèere pas, elle s'écoule dans l'âme comme a travers un crible. Et quand notre souffrance passe de pitié en pitié, ainsi que de bouche en bouche, il me semble que nous ne pouvons plus la respecter, ni l'aimer...

Verbal communication is much easier than written communication, because words act on the feelings in a mysterious way and easily establish a current of sympathy between people; it is for this reason that an orator is able to produce conviction by arguments which do not seem very comprehensible to any one reading the speech later.

She hopped onto his knees to comfort him.

That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true.

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell.

To think well of every other man's condition, and to dislike our own, is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

We are made kind by being kind.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which, if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied the man.

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.