Quotes About Sympathy

I'm not the kind of woman who intuitively understands or sympathises with other women, probably because I don't understand or sympathise all that much with myself.

what is the point of self pity if there was nobody to pity you for it?

Taking care of a border security is one of the issues that government has to manage. It is not to be politicised to win votes and gain sympathy.

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.

Empathy is not a betrayal of one's cause.

It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

We like to say we would never want anyone we care about to suffer. But is it because it's we who cannot see them in pain?

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

My heart goes out to anyone who suffers, and of course, to their families.

Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you.

You cannot have a deep sympathy with both man & nature. Those qualities which bring you near to the one estrange you from the other."  

For the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

He was easily sorry for people.