Quotes About Sympathy

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.

We are always mistaking the suffering of others; it's either much worse than we think or not nearly so bad.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

Until you take a walk through in their shoes, you'll have no idea where and how much they hurt in their journey.

The Savior was no ivory-tower observer, no behind-the-lines captain... The Savior was a participant, a player, who not only understood our plight intellectually, but who felt our wounds because they became his wounds.

You could say they got punished for what they did, but when you know the circumstances you can't help feeling sorry." "Mm . . . that's right." "Afterwards Yamagami couldn't make any kind of a living. This is a small place, and the dispute haunted him: wherever he went asking for work, no one would hire him. Up to now he seemed to be managing somehow with the money Yoshi brought in now and then.

He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be.

However much it hurts you, remember that I am the one it happened to. I am the one who was pregnant. I'm the one who isn't pregnant anymore. Whatever you feel, think about what I must feel. Just like you can say I don't know what it is like to be in prison, you don't know what it's like to go to a clinic and sign your name in a book.

didn't have to tell him that I understood, because he knew that I did. There should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that's already yours.

Among civilian whites in general, reactions wound more softly in the same coil: a stab of sympathy and generalized remorse, followed quickly by resentment of exaggerated accusations and then a growing sense of innocence.

A government rarely represents the people! Love of country is often confused in simple minds with love of one's government. They are rarely one; they are not synonymous. Yet," he added, mournfully, "the evil men in government are compelled to show a public face of sympathy for the oppressed and must pretend, at all times, to be one with them, seeking to rectify the very wrong they have secretly committed.

Lopez patted his arm, closed her eyes with a pained grimace and said, "Then you gotta man the fuck up and go talk about your emotions." She opened her eyes at the muffled groan of protest from Jonah and said sympathetically, "I know, I feel your pain. You want to go shoot something?

The answer was simple. It was the difference between sympathy and empathy. Carl

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.

Edna - when I first picked her up, she had a voice that really spoke to me.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

Because Jesus Christ is a man, He feels what we feel. Because He is God, He can do something about it.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.