Quotes About Sympathy

I cannot sympathize with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing. There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores, the better.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.

A ti te gusta todo el mundo, o lo que es lo mismo, no te importa nadie

I am quite content with philosophic contemplation. But, as the nineteenth century has gone bankrupt through an over-expenditure of sympathy, I would suggest that we should appeal to science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.

It was like she could see his heart through his eyes, and it was clear that she was breaking it—breaking him.

the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. Nothing further Jeeves, I said with quiet dignity.

To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

I hardly knew what to do. I wanted, of course, to rush down to Washington Square and grip the poor blighter silently by the hand; and then, thinking it over, I hadn't the nerve. Absent treatment seemed the touch. I gave it him in waves.

Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world.

Only the shallow man loses responsiveness to the woes of others' lives, as he sinks into narrow suffering of his own.

Ik zal nooit vergeten dat zij voor me huilde toen ik dat zelf niet kon.

It's the hardest thing in the world to continue to be aware of someone else's pain.

I'm afraid of sympathy as if it were a collar, tightening.

If you don't care about anybody- no problem.The big problem is only when you do care.

And she wondered, as she had often wondered before, if Richard liked her only because she was more sympathetic with his ambitions than anyone else he happened to know now, and because he felt her criticism was a help to him.

He had wanted merely a friendly, sympathetic listener to whom he could unburden himself. That's what we all want when we are in trouble. That is frequently all the irritated customer wants, and the dissatisfied employee or the hurt friend.

PRINCIPLE 5 Talk in terms of the other person's interests.

don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were in your position, I would feel just as you do.

Yo no lo puedo culpar por sentirse como se siente. Si yo estuviera en su lugar, no hay duda de que me sentiría de la misma manera".

People sometimes became invalids in order to win sympathy and attention, and get a feeling of importance

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance, and kindness. "To know all is to forgive all." As Dr. Johnson said: "God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?

Lincoln hadn't wanted advice. He had wanted a sympathetic, trusted listener to whom he could unburden himself.