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Quotes About Sympathy

I am thankful for the adversities, which have crossed my pathway, for they taught me tolerance, sympathy, self-control, perseverance and some other virtues I might never have known.
~ Napoleon Hill
I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.
~ Anna Laetitia Waring
There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.
~ Phillips Brooks
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
~ Homer
I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.
~ Rogers Hornsby
The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
~ Anthony Storr
People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
~ Charlotte Gray
Sending you sincere condolences and the wish that the passing of time eases your sorrow.
~ Margaret Jones
Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.
~ Myrtle Reed
Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
He knows the most important language of all. Human compassion.
~ Ann Rinaldi
Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.
~ Anna Quindlen
I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing; for much as I had seen before, I never knew till now the utter misery of a cab-horse's life.
~ Anna Sewell
Hissiz insanlar? küçümseme. Ne yaÅŸad?klar?n? bilsen, sen de hissiz olmay? dilerdin.
~ Anna Sewell
She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.
~ Anne Bronte
These scruples of false delicacy and pride would never thus have troubled you – you would have seen that the greatest wordly distinction and discrepancies of rank, birth, and fortune are as dust in the balance compared with the unity of accordant thoughts and feelings, and truly loving, sympathizing hearts and souls.
~ Anne Bronte
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
~ Anne Bronte
True benevolence and gentle, considerate kindness.
~ Anne Bronte
I can feel for anyone that is unjustly treated...and I can feel for those that injure them too.
~ Anne Bronte
If you loved as I do, you would not have so nearly lost me—these scruples of false delicacy and pride would never thus have troubled you—you would have seen that the greatest worldly distinctions and discrepancies of rank, birth, and fortune are as dust in the balance compared with the unity of accordant thoughts and feelings, and truly loving, sympathising hearts and souls.
~ Anne Bronte
Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
~ Anne Frank
I was too happy for words and I believe he was as well.
~ Anne Frank
Creo que Peter quisiera tener la misma facilidad de expresión que yo; no sabe que su torpeza me enternece.
~ Anne Frank
they mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kindhearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more.
~ Anne Frank