Quotes About Sympathy

Sharing Jesus is as simple as connecting with others around their passion or their pain.

So you've made a friend. How sad for them.

The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes

Llego el momento en que el sufrimiento de los demás ya no les bastó: tuvieron que convertirlo en espectáculo.

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

The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.

It's weird, but I'm so empathetic; when I see people dying on hot sauce, I do feel for them. And I'm a Midwestern guy, so I think I'm just naturally nice and polite.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Whenever I hear a baby cry, I cringe.

People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

When I see somebody fall in practice or get hurt, it almost makes me want to cry.

I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.

If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

They might medicate themselves with alcohol and drugs. Their families didn't know how to help; neither sympathy nor moralizing seemed to have any effect. In this way, the depressed person gets caught up in a vicious circle from which there seems to be no escape.

Taylor, McKenna, Abigail, and Taylor simultaneously crouched over in pain.

When people look at a dangerous violent criminal at the beginning of his developmental process rather than at the very end of it, they will see, perhaps unexpectedly, that the dangerous violent criminal began as a relatively benign human being for whom they would probably have more sympathy than antipathy.

it is through sentiment and sympathy, not through rationality and universalistic moral discourse, that democratic advances take place. This is why he considers books like Uncle Tom's Cabin to have played a more important role than philosophical treatises in securing moral progress."12

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.