Quotes About Sympathy

There was something almost unbearably touching about a bald spot on a handicapped man.

Because it literally makes no sense. Close to two hundred people all punishing somebody by getting embarrassed for him, killing him by empathetically dying right there with him, for him, up there at the podium. The applause when this guy's done has the relieved feel of a fist unclenching, and their cries of 'Keep Coming!' are so sincere it's almost painful.

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.

O hell! to choose love by another's eyes! Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lighting in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath pwer to say, 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.

I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear

And Sir, it is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion.

I pity you That's a degree to love

Or if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And, ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up. So quick bright things come to confusion

Tutti gli uomini sanno dare consigli e conforto al dolore che non provano.

Then with the losers let it sympathize, for nothing can seem foul to those that win.

After she married the Duke of York, she immediately transformed his life, bringing him love, understanding, sympathy and support for which he had always craved. She inspired him, she calmed him and she enabled him for the first time in his life to believe in himself. Her sense of humor awoke his own, her natural gaiety lightened him. Their marriage was a rare union in which each complemented and enhanced the other.

such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience.

You can empathize without sympathizing.

The true art of seeing and enjoying rests chiefly in sensitiveness and power of sympathy, and the true value of observation is in the noble thoughts that it excites within us.

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.

saw the hurt in his eyes. It made me feel like someone was squeezing water out of my heart.

laid his head in my hand. I almost cried at what I saw. His coat was dirty and mud-caked. His skin was

Più che d'intelligenza abbiamo bisogno di dolcezza e di bontà.

On an opponent:He loves the working man. He loves to see him work.

En aquellos días duros, la derrota no era juzgada con indulgencia por los extenuados aliados y todos tuvimos que sobreponernos a ello, con cortesía que apenas velaba el menosprecio y con simpatía que apenas dominaba al resentimiento. Y he de rendir aquí un tributo a la dignidad y al valor tranquilo del ministro italiano y al respeto que supo inspirar a todos en aquellas tristes circunstancias.

Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.

I maintain that this revolution has aroused in the hearts and desires of all spectators who are not themselves caught up in it a sympathy which borders almost on enthusiasm . . . It cannot therefore have been caused by anything other than a moral disposition within the human race.

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.