Quotes About Sympathy

all because she's the first person I've met who seems to speak my language. A few words of it anyway.

Reading is being in stuff." Ben squinted. "Like actually being there?" "Like actually being there. You plug straight into the writer's brain. It's just you and them. You experience what they experience.

How very strange that someone she had met so briefly, under such extraordinary circumstances, should turn out to be able to pinpoint exactly what she was feeling, and how. Or, rather, take what she was feeling and make her feel so very much better about it.

Girl understand each other in a way boys never will.

I wished there was something I could say to take that look away, but sometimes there just weren't words.

But the important thing, the real thing, is Chris and I understand each other, which I think counts for a lot more than people realize.

Because just like you need to be where I am, I need to be where you are.

In the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant makes it quite clear that sympathetic feelings are often welcome, amiable, desirable, beautiful. They can under certain conditions be good objectively, all things considered. But they are not morally good (V 82.18–25). A happy, well-rounded character is an ideal that lies beyond the sphere of Kant's conception of morality.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

They did this because God had made them favorably disposed toward the Israelites. How did

there is a distinction between understanding and sympathizing.

Nie entschuldigen, Baby. Nie reden. Blumen schicken. Ohne Brief. Nur Blumen. Die decken alles zu. Sogar Gräber.

I see their dark forms, their beards move in the wind. I know nothing of them except that they are prisoners; and that is exactly what troubles me. Their life is obscure and guiltless;--if I could know more of them, what their names are, how they live, what they are waiting for, what are their burdens, then my emotion would have an object and might become sympathy. But as it is I perceive behind them only the suffering of the creature, the awful melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men.

The whole world ought to pass by this bed and say: "That is Franz Kemmerich, nineteen and a half years old, he doesn't want to die. Let him not die!

Omul fericit este mai în m?sur? s? simt? compasiune pentru alÈ›ii.Cel fericit simte cu mai mult? intensitate nefericirea decât cel fericit.Chiar dac? ajunge uÈ™or la contrarul ei.?i mulÈ›i dintre cei care fac haz de nefericirea lor se complac, în fond, în ea.

I know nothing about them except that they are prisoners-of-war, and that is precisely what shakes me. Their lives are anonymous and blameless; if I knew more about them, what they are called, how they live, what their hopes and fears are, then my feelings might have a focus and could turn into sympathy. But at the moment all I sense in them is the pain of the dumb animal, the fearful melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men. - Paul Buemer

It's a great privilege to be permitted to share any part of your thought and confidence. It puts me in spirits again and makes me feel as if my private life had been recreated. But, better than that, it makes me hope that I may be of some use to you, to lighten the days with whole-hearted sympathy and complete understanding. That will be a happiness indeed.

The official burdens on your shoulders are indeed heavy. I write to tell you how deeply I sympathize with you in having to bear this new burden of personal loss and sorrow.

You can't have understanding without empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.

You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.

To understand is to forgive.

He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.

Non devo fargli aumentare il dolore, pensò. Il mio non importa. Posso controllarlo. Ma il suo dolore può farlo diventare matto.