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Quotes About Sympathy

Doc would listen to any kind of nonsense and change it for you to a kind of wisdom. His mind had no horizon—and his sympathy had no warp.
~ John Steinbeck
sorrow is the mother of a general compassion
~ John Steinbeck
she was exaggerating the severity of her condition in order to crave sympathy.  Yet
~ Unknown
We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.
~ Unknown
I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.
~ Sean Penn
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
~ Joseph Addison
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.
~ Steven Erikson
I don't need everybody in my life, I just need a few people who truly understand me.
~ Terry Mark
Life is a huge smile if we stop expecting any outsiders understanding and stop hoping for other peoples sympathy.
~ Unknown
Kindness is the most beautiful compensation in life...
~ Unknown
Sometimes, when I feel like nobody understands me, it helps to think of you! Nobody understands you either.
~ Unknown
Have you ever lived my life, have you ever spent one minute in my shoes? If you havent, then tell me why you judge me like you do.
~ Unknown
If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
~ William Allen White
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
~ Oscar Wilde
There's a difference between being there for someone and just being there, I hate when people confuse the two.
~ Unknown
I'm so sorry for not being there for you.. When you needed someone, the most. At your last time, your breathed.
~ Unknown
There comes a time when when you need to stop being embarrassed by someone and start being embarrassed FOR someone.
~ Unknown
If you hurt being there for someone then I don't know pain is.
~ Unknown
There's nothing worse than seeing your friends upset and not being able to do a thing to help them.
~ Unknown
Un ser real, por profundamente que simpaticemos con él, le percibimos en gran parte por medio de nuestros sentidos, es decir, sigue opaco para nosotros y ofrece un peso muerto que nuestra sensibilidad no es capaz de levantar. Si le sucede una desgracia, no podemos sentirla más que en una parte mínima de la noción total que de él tenemos, ni tampoco podrá él sentirlo más que en una parte de la noción total que de sí tenga.
~ Marcel Proust
Un être réel, si profondément que nous sympathisions avec lui, pour une grande part est perçu par nos sens, c'est-à-dire nous reste opaque, offre un poids mort que notre sensibilité ne peut soulever.
~ Marcel Proust
Besides he was out of sympathy with the modern Sorbonne, where ideas of scientific exactitude, after the German model, were beginning to prevail over humanism.
~ Marcel Proust
A real human being, however profoundly we sympathize with him, is in large part perceived by our senses, that is to say, remains opaque to us, presents a dead weight which our sensibility cannot lift.
~ Marcel Proust
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero