Quotes About Sympathy

The same heart beats in every human breast.

There is a way to acknowledge the great suffering of others without diminishing our own suffering.

For a moment she knew exactly what he was thinking, not just about Tom, but about her, and himself, and all of life, and she liked the way he saw things. She could spend her life tuning into the calming frequency of his thoughts. He wasn't a stiff, and he wasn't a weakling either. What was the word for it? Sensitive was the only one that came to mind, amazing as that was to consider; he was a sensitive man. He soaked up whatever you gave him.

He sees us not as pathetic victims of life, but masters of the art of living; not wanting sympathy, but imparting help to others

Me empezó a dar pena el pobre muchacho, empecé a cogerle simpatía. A fin de cuentas, él no tenía la culpa de contar para hombre tan temprano.

We are professionally admonished to freeze many of our ordinary human instincts, to distance ourselves from too much personal knowledge of or contact with the people we write about, lest we endanger our objectivity or adulterate our product with an excess of understanding of their behavior or, God forbid, sympathy.

So much of translating, Gil once told me, takes place in an imaginary space where the writer and the translator come together. It is not necessary to sympathize with the writer, to agree with what he's written. But it is necessary to walk alongside and stay in step. It's harder, he says, when the other person has a bad limp or stops and starts all the time or moves erratically. It is hardest of all when the story comes from a place the translator himself can't go.

Eck tilts his head and gently licks Bob's ear with his long, sticky tongue. It is his special way of expressing sympathy and it is not effective.

Jules had had five sessions with a disheveled social worker named Melinda, who was as kind as the kindest mother, nodding in sympathy while Jules railed against the stupidity of college life. Later, she would barely remember what Melinda had said to her, but at the time her presence had been soothing and necessary,

Quien no ha sentido nunca algo así no tiene derecho a juzgar, y quien lo ha sentido no necesita hacerlo.

When you love someone, seeing them in pain can be harder than being in pain yourself.

No emotion is more squirmy than feeling embarrassed for someone else

Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain't a man surely!

Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in the universe!

The day you stop being compassionate, your adjective of human drops!

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

He held her against him and for once he understood what she had felt every day that he had known her

La atrajo hacia él y, por una vez, entendió lo que ella había sentido cada día desde que se conocían.

He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Not one tear of His child is ever shed without evoking the most heartfelt empathy and compassion of God.

In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows has a part.

He knew that in a sense he was a word, as Ruth had been a word to this woman by simply being herself. A word of presence—I am with you. I feel your suffering. I hear your cries beneath your smiling face and your statements so calculated to shock. I grieve with you, and I grieve in your place, as you will not allow yourself to grieve, because you think there is nothing beyond grief.