Quotes About Sympathy

It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

The real question is, do you root for the fox in that song? Or are you horrified that the goose and the duck are being dragged off to their death, which is described in detail?

víctima, y a las víctimas trato de comprender.

The first step in helping a suffering person is to acknowledge that the pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.

persons with AIDS, and they hear a very clear message from the church: "You get no sympathy from me. You deserve your suffering as God's punishment. Keep away." I cannot think of a more terrifying disease than AIDS, or one that provokes a less compassionate response.

The first step in helping a suffering person (or in accepting our own pain) is to acknowledge that pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep," advised the apostle Paul (Romans 12:15), wise words that apply especially in times of crisis.

As a queen my person must be inviolate, my body is always holy, my presence is sacred. Shall I lose that powerful magic for the benefit of moaning on about my injuries? Shall I trade majesty itself for the pleasure of a word of sympathy

All that was left of you was this sock, Peter went on in a small voice. Wally decided that if their family ever became poor, they could send Peter out to beg on street corners, because he obviously could wring your heart.

The very fact of our becoming aware of this profound ordering of things will enable human collectivization to pass beyond the enforced phase, where it now is, into the free phase: that in which (men having at last understood that they are inseparably joined elements of a converging Whole, and having learnt in consequence to love the preordained forces that unite them) a natural union of affinity and sympathy will supersede the forces of compulsion.

Když Tv?j pÃ…â"¢ítel padne, nemáÅ¡ se radovat, ale ani mu nemáÅ¡ pomoct vstát.

It really seemed that Edek was answering the questions that Mendel was asking himself, that he read in the depths of Mendel's brain, in that secret bed where thoughts are born. But it itsn't so strange, Mendel thought; two good clocks mark the same hour, even if they are of different make. They only have to start together.

My first day back was a nonevent. I expected kids to make a big fuss and tell me how sorry they were about my dad and about the accident.

I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.

Santi and Wolfe exchanged a look. Wolfe inclined his head a little to the side, with a strange, crooked smile. You see? They're as bad as we are. Worse, Santi sighed.

We don't care about everyone… It isn't in our natures. We can only care about those we know, or those we are connected with.

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