Quotes About Sympathy

It's man's sympathy, with all Gods creatures, that makes him truly a man.

I wish men had to PMS. That way they can see what a pain in the a.. it is.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.

I grieve for every death.

Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news.

You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone.

Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it.

Our atheist thoughts go out to his family following their loss.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet dignity.

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours

I think the ability to emphasize is, in large part, what makes me a man and not a boy.

My mother wanted to be a mother. That's the only thing she wanted from the bottom of her heart. She didn't want to be the number one actress - which she was - and she didn't want to be this great legend. All she wanted to be was a mother and she did but God took her away. So I always will empathise and sympathise with women.

After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.

No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.

Most women who work and have a career and a family sympathise with one another because they know just how difficult it is to try and manage it all and sometimes if the pressure's too great and you can't manage something has to give and it's either your career or your family.

I may be clever, she thought, quite sadly, but I'm not in the least kind or sympathetic.

You set, Bones? Ouch, McCoy said. I assume that pun was meant to make me feel better, or else accidental.

I'm sorry," I heard her say. "One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

regretted that he had to comfort me for his own loss.

In India, I learned a proverb that may seem somewhat heartless: "The tears of strangers are only water." It means we are obligated to help only our own; if others have a problem, we wish them well, but it's their problem.

At least we're companions in misfortune