Quotes About Sympathy

Why are you so sad, akri? (Simi) I'm not sad, Simi. (Acheron) Yes you are. I know you, akri, you gots that pain in your heart like the Simi gets whenever she cries. (Simi)

Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.

I'm happy if everybody else is. I'm a big brother, the oldest. If you're happy and I'm not, I'm cool with that. If I'm happy and you're not, I'm sad.

To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here to get a scholarship.

I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.

If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.

I know what ails you.

One smile relieves a heart that grieves.

And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

I don't feel very much like Pooh today, said Pooh. There there, said Piglet. I'll bring you tea and honey until you do.

The Sabbath, thus, is more than an armistice, more than an interlude; it is a profound conscious harmony of man and the world, a sympathy for all things and a participation in the spirit that unites what is below and what is above. All that is divine in the world is brought into union with God. This is Sabbath, and the true happiness of the universe.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Don't criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

The inclination to share thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature.If in pain I wish to let you know it,and ask your sympathy and assistance;and my pleasurable emotions also,I wish to communicate to,and share with you.

Don't criticise the; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another.  I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love.  I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.

Two different sets of philosophers have attempted to teach us this hardest of all the lessons of morality. One set have laboured to increase our sensibility to the interests of others; another, to diminish that to our own. The first would have us feel for others as we naturally feel for ourselves. The second would have us feel for ourselves, as we naturally feel for others.

The agreeable passions of love and joy can satisfy and support the heart without any auxiliary pleasure. The bitter and painful emotions of grief and resentment more strongly require the healing consolation of sympathy.

If you truly love someone, when he is cut, you bleed.

There is no worse feeling than being unable to assuage the suffering of the innocent.

What you love, I love. What worries you, worries me. What you dream of, I will try and make come true.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.