Quotes About Sympathy

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

I don't notice any sympathy for them in [ Nicholas Kristof] column. If you're writing a column saying the people for Trump are Nazis and Klansman and North Korean dictators.

There's a lot of sympathy, but some people in America don't care. They think Syria is a very faraway place and that it's none of their business.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

While he was alive Peter Jennings did considerable damage to the cause of civilization and human deceny [sic] by his sympathy for Jew-hating terrorists and their supporters.

...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

Explain me to myself, you'll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I'll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.

The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!

How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

I had no sympathy for drama queens.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.