Quotes About Sympathy

When your heart is crusted over with your own pain, it is easy to feel little for others.

Vaishnava jana to tene kahiyeje pi?a paraay? jaa?e re. Only those who feel the pain of others may be called truly good. Sarojini sees her listening and says, "A doctor is like that, no?

Not even Duryodhan had dared to look at me quite like this in his sabha, for he'd known I was a queen. Is this how men looked at ordinary women, then? Women they considered their inferiors? A new sympathy for my maids rose in my mind. When I became queen again, I thought, I would make sure common women were treated differently.

If you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness?

We've met a few times and I've felt a lot of sympathy towards you and a desire to be closer... I had a feeling that somehow I knew you and we could just be what we are together.

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

I tell her how sorry I am, and as I speak my words feel inadequate and pathetic.

I didn't know then, and would not have believed, that sympathy gets weaker when excessive claims are made upon it. That it doesn't grow back to the same extent after you give it out. That people, without realizing it or wanting it, develop protective techniques against self-destructive sympathy.

one who speaks my language without saying a word.

Henny "was one of those women who secretly symphathize with all women against all men; life was a rotten deal, with men holding all the aces.

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

Modern cultures restrict personhood to human beings, a selfish and dangerous contraction of awareness and sympathy. Primal cultures distribute personhood throughout nature. In such societies, animals and plants, even mountains and rivers, are spoken of as being people-beings with status equal to the status of human beings. Everything in nature has sentiment and purpose.

What is friendship, if not a chance to indulge in mutual self-pity?

Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight. My heartfelt wish is that my story may create some understanding for a people whose will to live in peace and freedom has won so little sympathy from an indifferent world.

You are exercising what the poet Keats called your chameleon quality, the ability to 'tolerate a loss of self and a loss of rationality by trusting in the capacity to recreate oneself in another character or another environment'. Such a feat of imaginative recreation has always come easily to me. Too easily. It's part of being a watcher, forgetting who you are and putting yourself in the thing you are watching.

If anyone plays the martyr card, staying late or working too much, they're more likely to get a leaflet about efficiency or time management dropped on their desk than any sympathy.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellow man and I will tell you how much you have loved them.

Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.