Quotes About Sympathy

If someone needs help, I don't do tea and sympathy, but I'm honest and practical - that's how I was brought up.

Overheard at a gravesite: "And they all said 'I'm sorry for your loss,' as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me."

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

Those misfortunates among us who have been brought down by circumstances beyond their control deserve all the help and sympathy we can give them. But there are others who are not born to misfortune or unhappiness, but who draw it upon themselves by their destructive actions and unsettling effect on others. It would be a great thing if we could raise them up, change their patterns, but more often than not it is their patterns that end up getting inside and changing us.

His theory of oratory, the exact opposite of the Asiatics', was simple: don't move about too much, hold your head straight, stick to the point, make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, and when you've won their sympathy, sit down quickly –

Let a woman know you were nervous, and she put her own construction on it, and sympathy went right out the window.

The childhood capacity for empathy progresses from feeling someone's pain because you are them, to feeling for the other person, to feeling as them.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.

I CAN help people—I've learned that money isn't the only power for helping people. Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.

She was always at her best with him, with a delightful feeling of being understood. To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

There is something in me today that makes just love everybody I see.

Clara said. "Do your best, if you happen to love a fool. You'll have my sympathy. Some folks will preach that it's a woman's duty never to quit, once you make a bond with a man. I say that's folly. A bond has to work two ways. If a man don't hold up his end, there comes a time to quit.

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He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.

Loving is so much truer when sympathy, not desire, makes the match; for it leaves no wounds.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

When Brocker arrived he took her hands and held them to his face and cried into them.