Quotes About Sympathy

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is "as good as she is beautiful". I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel sorry for them.

He spoke as if He rather sympathized with the feeling in favor of celibacy,--as if to abstain from marriage were the better and wiser way, and only not to be required of men because for the majority it was impracticable. "But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

Children have no sympathy with growth in any world, whether of nature or of grace. Nothing pleases them but that an acorn should become an oak at once, and that immediately after the blossom should come the ripe fruit. Then it is idle to speak of the uses of patience to the inexperienced; for the moral value of the discipline of trial cannot be appreciated till the trial is past.

THE THIRD charge against the House of Representatives is, that it will be taken from that class of citizens which will have least sympathy with the mass of the people, and be most likely to aim at an ambitious sacrifice of the many to the aggrandizement of the few. Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary.

You can awaken people by dreaming their dreams more clearly than they dream themselves.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

Quelquefois, il y a des sympathies si réelles que, se rencontrant pour la première fois, on semble se retrouver.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death

What's important is you have to care about what you're watching and the characters you're watching and what they are going through.

It was only on sympathy wave had KCR won the elections in 2014 and became the chief minister.

Artworks are especially good at helping our psyches in a variety of ways: they rebalance our moods, lend us hope, usher in calm, stretch our sympathies, reignite our senses, and reawaken appreciation.

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

Pity is just another form of abuse.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

If I had to feel one thing towards Jim Hellwig, I guess it would be pity a little bit.

Care and pity are two different things.

I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.