Quotes About Sympathy

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool.

Tony no abrió los ojos. Cualquiera que diga que sabe cómo te sientes es un iluso.

T]he religious man … believes in a real sympathy of a divine being in his sufferings and wants, believes that the will of God can be determined by … prayer, … The … religious man unhesitatingly assigns his own feelings to God; God is to him a heart susceptible to all that is human.

What makes Bolshevism strong is not the Soviets' artillery and machine-guns but the fact that the whole world receives its ideas sympathetically.

Restrictionistic ideas have never met with any measure of popular sympathy except after a time of monetary depreciation when it has been necessary to decide what should take the place of the abandoned inflationary policy.

Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

Be a real friend to people; it's the only way you can be affected by the feelings of their infirmities and prove your real love for them.

Everyone possesses the spirit of his friend.

People like people who like them.

The city is full of accidental revelation, half-heard cries for help, and strangers who will tell you everything at the first suspicion of sympathy

If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists – all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.

And yet he did genuinely love Cordelia. Not with any kind of physical love. That was impossible. But with a feeling of pity that shook the foundations of his nature.

The day we stop crying is the day we stop caring.

Ever since you knew your power, You made me cry, And now everytime our love goes sour, You won't sympathize, You see these tears falling down to my ears, I swear you like when I'm in pain, I try to tell you all my fears, You still don't care.

If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.

I believe in sympathy, compassion and forgiveness,

Tolkien offers sympathy, surrender, friendship and, most of all, forgiveness.

If you weep you will weep alone but If you weep loudly enough,people will be ready to mingle their tears with yours.

Always be the reason of someone's happiness never just be a part of it. Be a part of someone's sadness never be the reason for it.

Anyone can see your tears, but only few special people can understand what it really means.

Compassion makes you feel sadness. Sympathy only makes you feel pity.