Quotes About Sympathy

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

If you yourself are not a victim, you cannot claim to see the world as the victim does.

sympathize with a man whom God has punished for his sins, thus to help him when God would still continue a just punishment, is to do wrong, no doubt about it, and we do that more than we help those who are deserving

Who wanted to pass someone on the street and greet them only to be rewarded with a miserable sigh?

By now, sympathy for the plight of the polar bears had largely disappeared from public discourse. Instead of beautiful mammals deserving of out preservation efforts, they came to be known as a marauding horde of beasts surfing a climatic anomaly that was laying waste to Canada.

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

I feel her tears on my face. They feel the same as mine.

Nedense, hayatta bir müddet beraber yürüdü?ümüz insanlar?n ba??na bir felaket geldi?ini, herhangi bir s?k?nt?ya dü?tü?ünü görünce bu belalar? kendi ba??m?zdan savm?? gibi ferahl?k duyar ve o zavall?lara, sanki bize de gelebilecek belalar? kendi üstlerine çektikleri için, alaka ve merhamet göstermek isteriz.

When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them. Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs. In which case they're misguided and deserve your compassion. Is that so hard?

To enter others' minds and let them enter yours.

Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of their relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are one. The things ordained for you -- teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people who share them with you -- treat them with love. With real love.

Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of their relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are one.

61. To enter others' minds and let them enter yours.

Mine is the disaster, if disaster there be; and to be severely distressed at one's own misfortunes does not show that you love your friend, but that you love yourself.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

Those who have been in trouble themselves are alert to it in others

He needs to be listened to, he needs to be heard. He needs at least the illusion of being understood.

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing. Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.

She did not believe he was a monster. He was not a monster, to her. Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, offkey, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles, he called his dog Liebchen and made it sit up for little pieces of raw steak. How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.

A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old crone.

It was as if they could read each other's minds. No, not minds: each other's mindlessness.

I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.

I feel sorry for her, but I don't like people I've got to feel sorry for.