Quotes About Sympathy

and thus ever works the pallid academic mind, denying the real, exalting the fictitious and the false, incapable of adjusting itself to the flow of living things, to the reality and the pathos of man's follies, to the valiant hope that ever causes him to aspire, and again to aspire; that never lifts a hand in aid because it cannot . . . when what the world needs is courage, common sense and human sympathy, and a moral standard that is plain, valid and livable.

If I were in their place, I'd fall over myself.

Her presence, her fate, her sympathy for me, have power still to extract tears from my withered brain.

It is a great folly to hope that other men will harmonize with us; I have never hoped this. I have always regarded each man as an independent individual, whom I endeavored to understand with all his peculiarities, but from whom I desired no further sympathy. In this way have I been enabled to converse with every man, and thus alone is produced the knowledge of various characters and the dexterity necessary for the conduct of life.

Em vão o homem ajuizado e razoável contemplará o estado do infeliz, em vão lhe dará seus conselhos! Da mesma forma que um homem saudável, parado junto ao leito do enfermo, jamais poderá transmitir-lhe a parte mais insignificante de suas energias.

It is the greatest and most genuine of pleasures to observe a great mind in sympathy with our own.

The spectators were expressing their sympathy in various ways, when, the officers of law having finished their ceremonial, the cart went on; and Wilhelm, who took a deep interest in the fate of the lovers, hastened forward by a foot path to get some acquaintance with the Amtmann before the procession should arrive.

It soon became evident, though, that public sympathy was one thing and public willingness to translate sympathy into cash was quite another.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

Fine as justice is, as an every day quality, it is not winning. It is lacking in warmth. We need something better. We need sympathy with the other fellow and kindness.

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.

Other men's crosses are not my crosses.

Give me tender and supple and conformable affections, that as I joy with them that joy, and mourn with them that mourn, so I may fear with them that fear.

Reading honest literature makes you love the world. Knowledge and understanding are love. Reading educates our feelings and enhances our sympathy. When you read for understanding, you are fundamentally changed. You are a different person at the end of the story or the novel than you were when it began.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

In real life, when someone's partner calls them, they can tell from the first word their partner says what their mood is.

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

One finds that constant quiet sympathy is not only one of the most lovable qualities, but one of the very rarest.

Empathy, sympathy, love, and justice create a place only in such character, where humanity fragrances and tongue stays sober.