Quotes About Sympathy

I have the strong feeling that Peter and I aren't really as different as we may seem on the surface, and I'll explain why: neither Peter nor I have a mother.

I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me. I couldn't bear their sympathy or their good-humored derision.

While washing up, Bep began talking to Mother and Mrs van Daan about how discourages she gets. What help did those two offer her? Our tactless mother, especially, only made things go from bad to worse. Do you know what her advice was? That she should think about all the other people in the world who are suffering! How can thinking about the misery of others help if you're miserable yourself?

Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears.

Some people cannot think themselves into anyone else's pain. If they don't feel it themselves, then it isn't real.

She had a certain pity for people who wavered, she entirely understood fear. . . .

It was embarrassing to be obliged to watch grief one cannot help.

Every one of them had been somebody's son, somebody's friend. Grant rubbed his hands over his face and drew in a long breath, letting it out in a sigh. "Perhaps Tallis did go mad, poor bastard. I hate this more

i wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy, of solace. I would not have told my woe to a living creature. My own tears meant nothing to me.

When a being reveals his pain in such a torrent, you are bound to respect the whole of the tragedy.

And so there was this enigmatic creature in a good likeness. A creature asking for sympathy.

He was trying to rape me. Again that long, assessing, intimate look. I can sympathize with the temptation, he said, half to himself.

I really believe that most people who seem scary are just sad.

I believe that most people who seem scary are just sad.

God," he said. "I come here to say I feel bad about your husband, and listen to me, yakking about my own little troubles." "I wouldn't call divorce a little trouble," Willa said.

I'm just saying a person can be too understanding," he said. "Too sympathizing and pitying, like. Getting into a kid's private brain." "There is no such thing as 'too understanding.' Ã¢â'¬Â "Well, count on a social worker to think that.

Yet we would never expect law and even extreme social opprobrium to remove from a population jealousy, hatred, greed, sympathy, mirth, possessiveness—the entire palette of human emotions.

There was even a small groundswell of sympathy for George, confined mainly among those who'd had no personal contact with him.

These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily.

It's a shame you have to go down for someone else. You don't seem like such a bad kid.

So I had decided to do it the easy way. Make them believe he was insane and the scales would fall from their eyes; they would 'understand'; the fear, the hate would be gone, evaporated. "So thats it," they would say; "he's crazy. I knew it all along." They might even begin to pity and sympathize. Good old Hollywood Christianity: God's gift to the Defense.

He was always on hand for misfortune, among the first to arrive when tragedy struck, and for this reason was known as Light Hearse Harry.

Kindness I can manage, even when affection I can't.

Maria was staring at me like I was wearing purple socks. 'Wow," she said. "That's exactly what music is.' And then she started crying again. But this time, she wept quietly. 'You understand," she said. 'You really understand.