Quotes About Sympathy

I have a certain sympathy with politicians having lived with one. I've seen how no matter how earnest or driven or energetic they are, it's still difficult to change things. I have been encouraged to go into politics, but I don't think I could make a contribution, it suits me better to be sniping from the sidelines.

I try to photograph with love and sympathy.

I had no sympathy with my mum and dad.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.

I would certainly not support Trump in any way shape or form, but I want to have sympathy.

You can't have empathy for somebody that's gone through something you haven't - because, definitionally, you can't. But you can feel for them and have sympathy for them. And that's what this country needs to practice more. It's about realizing that you do come from a different place.

The American people didn't send us to Congress to post our sympathies on social media. You can do that without going through the trouble of getting elected to Congress. This job is about setting rules that better protect us and our children.

Jamal Khashoggi was a Muslim Brotherhood operative, and so I don't really feel sympathy for him.

Neymar doesn't need to act - he's an excellent player, and he has everything a high-level player needs. He's one of the top five players in the world; why does he need to act? It doesn't bring him sympathy, and it's not good for him.

Thinking back to how it fell apart for Mourinho at Chelsea, I do have some sympathy for him. At most clubs it is the manager who determines the long-term stability of the players but at Chelsea it seems very much the other way round.

Every footballer plays with the hope that people love to watch you. But, for me, there is no sympathy or interest. I don't seem to have any charm for fans.

Nobody in football wants to receive sympathy.

My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.

I'm not looking for sympathy. If there's other footballers addicted to gambling, then maybe me speaking about my battle might help them.

Obviously, after the accident, I felt let down. Questions arose: Why me? Why was I the one to suffer? People around me started giving me looks of sympathy which made me feel worse. But then, I pulled myself together and decided to win over the disability.

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally," Eliot once wrote. "The only effect I ardently long to produce by my writings, is that those who read them should be better able to imagine and to feel the pains and the joys of those who differ from themselves in everything but the broad fact of being struggling erring human creatures.

It is undeniable, that unions formed in the maturity of thought and feeling, and grounded only on inherent fitness and mutual attraction, tended to bring women into more intelligent sympathy with men,

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Compassion can be learned through example.

If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone

Can Mr. Wolfe help it if an attractive young fellow insists on coming to cry on his shoulder?

Understanding is forgiveness. - Sonnet XV

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? WILLIAM BLAKE, SONGS OF INNOCENCE