Quotes About Sympathy

An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.

the novel is a liberal form…and the act of fiction writing is a performance of sympathy with people you are not .

She seemed more pitiable than murderable.

Not only had Mr. Butcavage's questions been reasonable, he also had an unfortunate name and no friends in his neighborhood. He was probably a lonely person like her mother, and Pip felt helplessly compassionate toward anyone who reminded her of her mother.

It's true I'm male and have some power, but I never asked to be born male. Maybe being male is like being born a predator, and maybe the only right thing for the predator to do, if it sympathizes with smaller animals and won't accept that it was born to kill them, is to betray its nature and starve to death. But maybe it's like something else—like being born with more money than others. Then the right thing to do becomes a more interesting social question.

She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

Yet we wanted human feeling, gestures free from suspicion, some sympathetic if stammering articulation, half syllables of mystification, a temporary eternal.

Their lack of imagination makes them cruel.

I have a strong feeling that the U.S.A. has lost the world, will be used by everybody as a 'fall guy', and is the Dragon to be tricked and plundered: old Fafnir with his gold-horde and grandfatherly willingness to be of help to his own destroyer. My sympathy, this time, is with the Dragon.

Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

The true basis for friendships is a prejudice or two in common," Max liked to say.

And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore shook his head from side to side. "Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time." "Dear, dear," said Pooh, "I'm sorry about that. Let's have a look at you.

Physical wounds don't matter when I receive them. But if I had to inflict them on someone else, that would wound me in a way I couldn't bear

Are you smellin' what I'm steppin' in?

I saw that civilization was honeycombed with what Max Nordau called conventional lies, with sham ecstasy, sham sympathy, sham smiles, sham laughter The

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear? Words of comfort.

Thomas Christian ladies attend his clinic as faithfully as they attend church, presenting him their aches and pains that are often surrogates for chronic marital woes—he offers placebos and sympathetic homilies, such as "Mullu elayil vinallum, ela mullel vinallum, elakka nashttam." Whether the thorn falls on the leaf, or the leaf falls on the thorn, the leaf suffers. "Aah, aah, you're so right, doctor. My husband is a thorn only, what to do?

Please know that news of your country's complete collapse was met with sadness in our nation.