Quotes About Sympathy

A veces sentimos piedad por personas que carecen por completo de ella tanto hacia sí mismas como hacia los demás.

Plakala sam i zbog njega i zbog nje; katkada žalimo ljude koji nemaju osje?aja ni za sebe ni za druge.

Ruhlar?m?z her neden yo?rulmu?sa ikimizinki de ayn?.

I was weeping as much for him as her; we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others.

might suspect him of a degree of under-bred pride; I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the

The notion of envying Catherine was incomprehensible to him, but the notion of grieving her, he understood clearly enough.

We do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others. 

?nsan bazen, kendine de, ba?kalar?na da ac?mak nedir bilmeyen kimselere de ac?yor.

We do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

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Is the child or wife of another dead? There is no one who would not say, "This is an accident of mortality." But if anyone's own child happens to die, it is immediately, "Alas! how wretched am I!" It should be always remembered how we are affected on hearing the same thing concerning others.

that you never be unfortunate or unhappy, but free, unrestricted and unrestrained; in sympathy with God's rule, which you submit to cheerfully; at odds with no one, no one's accuser; able in all sincerity to speak Cleanthes' line: 'Lead me, Zeus, lead me, Destiny.

Remind yourself, "What upsets this person is their opinion of what has happened. Another in the same circumstance, taking a different perspective, would react quite differently."   Do not share these thoughts with the grieving person. Sympathize with them—even cry with them. Your tears will be outward, not inward.

By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains.

I had noticed, for example, how all my infatuations dissolved as soon as I really became friends with a man, became sympathetic to his problems, listened to him kvetch about his wife, or ex-wives, his mother, his children. After that I would like him, perhaps even love him—but without passion.

Il ne s'agissait ni d'un coup de foudre amoureux, ni d'un coup de foudre amical, mais d'un coup de foudre ... comment dire ... humain.

Perhaps one must experience a passion of one's own before one can comprehend another's.

A child is a deep mystery. It has a life of its own, which it reveals to no one unless it meets with sympathy. Snub its first halting confidences concerning the inner life, or laugh at them, or be cross or indifferent, and you close the door against yourself forever.

On les écouta, on compatit, on s'indigna, on promit, mais on ne bougea pas une lance

Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

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

Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.