Quotes About Sympathy

But he didn't have any toys," she said softly.

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Friendship is love with understanding.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

She looks at Laura. Their eyes meet.

Originally, anti-Americanism was an ideological value supported by educational elites and the aristocracy, while less well-to-do and underprivileged Europeans demonstrated sympathy for America by emigrating there.

Mrs. Byrne." Mrs. Byrne smiled. "Hello, Nora. You look a little down. Hard day?" I nodded and said, "Yeah.

Don't be wasting your sympathy on me, kid. I did pretty damn well, I'll tell you what. You snag a woman like that, you don't ask what you did to deserve it. You just hope she never wises up and changes her mind.

Because that's what kindness is. It's not doing something for someone else because they can't, but because you can.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

We have a song, 'Welcome to the Family' - we realized for the first time in our lives that people go through this every day around the world. There is someone very close to them that they're losing, every day. That song is, 'We know how you're feeling.'

I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.

I realized that a great deal of life is exactly and precisely about being able to feel pain: my own and other people's.

When President Kirchner complains, I often sympathise with him, because Argentina was deindustrialised, and it is perfectly normal for the president of a country to try to get industry back.

You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

I'm definitely an animal lover.

I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

Everyone deserves compassion.

I was drawn to the story of Myeol-mang and Dong-kyeong. I wanted to understand and sympathize with the character Myeol-mang, whose being is the reason for all the destruction.

Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.