Quotes About Sympathy

In truth, it made me pity him, and see him as a fool.

How mercy gets to exist, where it comes from, perhaps can be seen from the inner evidence and images of the poem — an act of self-realization, self acceptance and the consequent and inevitable relaxation of protective anxiety and self hood and the ability to see and love others in themselves as angels without stupid mental self deceiving moral categories selecting who it is safe to sympathize with and who is not safe.

No hay nada como contemplar la desgracia ajena para olvidarse de la propia.

And he wasn't without sympathy for their cause, up to a point. Freedom and justice and so on, who doesn't like that stuff, in principle?

Eider frowned. Something for her to think about, perhaps? "I would have thought your pain would give you empathy." "Empathy? What's that?" Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. "It's a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.

That thought, as the misery of others often can, made him feel just a little better.

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor.

You're a sympathetic sonofabitch, you know that?". "You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor.

Horror was rooted in sympathy, after all, in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

He looked around the room and felt heartburn coming on like the drunk mother of a friend.

I wish there were a better than 'sorry'. But then, I'd probably need a better word than that.

He had been told, he said, of "colored students at the University of Minn[esota] partying with female students (white) and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.

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 though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed

Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.

Men's wretchedness in soothe I so deplore, Not even I would plague the sorry creatures more.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Poor souls! their miseries seem so much to please 'em, I scarce can find it in my heart to tease 'em.

High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one's life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness .