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Quotes About Sympathy

As a fourteen-year-old, he'd not been old enough to have sympathy for her—for either the child or the adult that she was.
~ John Irving
That poor girl wasn't a girl," Señor Eduardo said; he'd glanced once at Lupe, asleep in his lap, just to be sure she was still sleeping. "That poor girl was Flor
~ John Irving
Come amiamo amar le cose per conto di altri! Come amiamo che altri amino le cose tramite i nostri occhi
~ John Irving
Such a warm washcloth kind of sympathy was leaking from Dr. Gingrich that Larch felt wet—
~ John Irving
the further idea that to fit it for such tasks two things above all are necessary, growth in human sympathy through the putting down of self, and growth in knowledge and wisdom through strenuous study and meditation
~ John Keats
but people's memories are short for any sorrow that isn't theirs...
~ Unknown
No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning.
~ Jen Lancaster
I'm not sympathetic. I have zero sympathy. I understand about emotional eating, I understand how painful the process can be, but I also understand that change is possible.
~ Jillian Michaels
It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.
~ Jennifer Niven
It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.
~ Unknown
My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.
~ Carolyn Mackler
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia
~ Hideki Tojo
Be sensitive to the plight of others. You have to know about the tragedies as well as the triumphs, the failures as well as the success.
~ Jim Rohn
In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull.
~ Unknown
Only those who have been hurt in the heart understands the plight of those in pain.
~ Terry Mark
That moment when you can actually feel the pain in your chest from seeing or hearing something that breaks your heart.
~ Unknown
Just because you know what I feel, doesn't mean you know how it feels.
~ Unknown
You may have felt nothing when you ignored and walked by me, but it was like a punch to the stomach for me...
~ Unknown
I have learned to care people too much, not because they are good. but because I knew the pain of being ignored.
~ Unknown
You know you truly love someone when you begin to feel pain for that person.
~ Unknown
You will know that you are in love, when their mood can easily effect yours.
~ Unknown
Knowing what it feels like to be in pain is exactly why we try to be kind to others.
~ Unknown