Quotes About Sympathy

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him.

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

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

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into peoples minds better than we Liberals.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.