Quotes About Sympathy

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. —Gretel Ehrlich

If it was sympathy she was after, Ginny Holland might have known she'd come to the wrong place. Then again, it was early on a bright but blustery Saturday morning in October and her options were limited.

Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day.

A tearless heart is a callous heart.

I suppose in antique Marxist terms we are lavishly paid because we are perfect tools for the class even higher up, those who own the ballpark. You can occasionally have some sympathy for those frequently unhappy souls with big inheritances from birth. This was fate in which the sense of victimization is always possible. But my own class is undeserving of a mote, a mite, a filament, an iota of sympathy. We are self-made barkers, toy dogs, prime weenies.

Stealing goods from a town store would be a criminal offense and provoke righteous indignation. Stealing muskrats from his swamp would be just another example of what the hillmen were always doing to each other and provoke, at the very most, a sympathetic chuckle. Even

And kind. Yes, never forget kind. It's the cream in our porridge, the cinnamon in our strudel. That extra something that makes life wonderful.

No one should ever be forced upon those in grief, and all over-emotional people, no matter how near or dear, should be barred absolutely.

I never saw a wild thing / sorry for itself, D.H Lawrence wrote ... This may be what Lawrence (or we) would prefer to believe about wild things, but consider those dolphins who refuse to eat after the death of a mate. Consider those geese who search for the lost mate until they themselves become disoriented and die

I wanted to say that you don't grieve in the same way for love you've never had, but it still feels like a punch in the stomach. I wanted to say that you don't get any sympathy cards for the love you've never had, however much it hurts.

You can't blame someone if they honestly don't understand that their reality isn't the same as yours.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

No one else would understand our relationship, and no one else in this world would understand me the way you do.

I wonder, when you look into my eyes and watch my heart shatter, does it break your heart too, even crack it a little bit?

Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another What! you too? I thought no one but myself?

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Why can't people just hate me instead of being nice, it's the worst thing ever when people are sympathetic and you don't deserve sympathy.

Seeing someone you really care about being sad, and you cant do much...

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

No one would ever understand you until they have been in your position so don't complain and regret.