Quotes About Sympathy

Art is one of the great resources of my life," Abby had written the year before. "I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subject it represents.

Only the spoon," replied the don , "knows the pot's sorrows.

Grandma never understood fear, especially if it was someone else's.

Shared sorrow is half sorrow

Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another's bread and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

People despise critics because people despise weakness, and criticism is the weakest thing you can do in writing. It is the written equivalent of air guitar—flurries of silent, sympathetic gestures with nothing at their heart but the memory of the music.

It must have been quite terrible for you, my dear,' I said, giving her a companionable and comforting pat on the head.

The takers are the opposite. They are vampires who bring with them shadow. They suck from people. Drain energy from them. They seek sympathy, but are incapable of giving it. They wish to blame all their self-created ills on anyone they can pin them on, any excuse, any reason why they're not where they supposedly deserve to be. They bring the people around them down. Their wives, their children, their work colleagues, their communities. All they want is to take and never give.

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

So it was, your majesty, that I forever relinquished my sewing, and became a lovely peril, a flashing desolation, and an evil which smites by night, in spite of my abhorrence of irregular hours: and what I do I dislike extremely, for it is a sad fate to become a vampire, and still to sympathize with your victims, and particularly with their poor mothers.

to accept people as they are. If I wait for others to be what I want them to be, I will never accept them. By looking at what my brother is not, instead of at what he is, I will never be able to sympathize with him, struggle with him, hurt with him, or rejoice with him.

George Washington Carver said we should be kind to others: "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these.

If I could make one rule that everybody would have to follow… Stay Unique, Remain Humble and Kind, and Grow Empathy for others.

Sorry, Tommy," Newt muttered in his ear. "Could've been a bit more gentle.

Do you think we enjoy all this? You think we enjoy watching you suffer?

It saddens me how little you grasp," the woman responded. "Truly.

The most sensitive whites merely said: "We deplore the riots but sympathize with the reason for the riots." This was tantamount to saying: "Of course we raped your women, lynched your men, and ghettoized the minds of your children and you have a right to be upset; but that is no reason for you to burn our buildings. If you people keep acting like that, we will never give you your freedom.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Words are like pillows: if put correctly they ease pain.

We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.

Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary.

The fact that there is so much immoral behavior is not evidence of the weakness of the moral senses. The problem of wrong action arises because of the conflict among the several moral senses that exist, because of the struggle between morality and self-interest, and because of the corrosive effect of those forces that blunt the moral senses. We must often choose between duty and sympathy or between fairness and loyalty.