Quotes About Sympathy

We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

Even a witch wants sympathy.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.

You don't love someone out of loyalty... nor out of sympathy, either.

A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.