Quotes About Sympathy

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

I have no sympathy for people who find unpopularity embittering.

From the body of the loved one's simple, sweetly colored flesh, which our animal instincts urge us to desire, there springs not only the wonder of a new bodily life, but also the enlargement of the horizon of human sympathy and the glow of spiritual understanding which one could never have attained alone.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.

Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

We should learn by reflection on the misfortunes of others that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.

Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.

No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know none who cares or understands.