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Quotes About Sympathy

Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy, go to the nursery" Jaypaw mewed
~ Erin Hunter
She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.
~ Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
No one really understands the grief or joy of another.
~ Franz Schubert
Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
~ Bram Stoker
They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.
~ Napoleon Hill
It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
~ Graham Greene
It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.
~ Charles Darwin
Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
~ Sophie Swetchine
One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to have our thoughts often divined: ever entered into with sympathy.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
~ George Edward Woodberry
I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles.
~ Hamza Yusuf
Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
~ Oswald Chambers
when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
~ C. S. Lewis
In terms of the New Testament the Jews must suffer, therefore we will put it into practice if we will in charge and there will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over.
~ Desmond Tutu
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle
~ John Ruskin
Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world
~ Sri Chinmoy
The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
~ Paulo Coelho
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
~ Oscar Wilde
If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.
~ Orison Swett Marden
For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.
~ William Shakespeare