Quotes About Sympathy

Everything in the world needs kindness, child. [Ryssa]

Why are you so sad, akri? (Simi) I'm not sad, Simi. (Acheron) Yes you are. I know you, akri, you gots that pain in your heart like the Simi gets whenever she cries. (Simi)

Oh, my God, are you okay? (Syd) You ever nick yourself while shaving? (Steele) Yeah. (Syd) You know the burn you get that hurts like hell? (Steele) Yeah. (Syd) This is nothing like that. It's a lot worse. (Steele)

Hey. (She took his chin in her hand so that she could move his head back and forth while she examined him.) You're hurting in there. That would make akri very sad. He doesn't like for his Dark-Hunters to hurt and the Simi don't like it when akri is sad. Why are you hurt? (Simi)

Don't yell at me when I just survived a near-death experience. (Abbie)

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

I'd spare your tears for the rest of your life if I could.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

It has to be admitted that, in a sneaking way, although he hated the discomfort of seasickness, once he was over it, he enjoyed the attention and sympathy that it created among attractive young women like Evanlyn and Alyss. And he liked the fact that Will tended to walk on eggshells around him when the problem was mentioned. Keeping Will off balance was always desirable. ~Halt

People always find it amusing when they see a friend suffering, Stig thought.

If she was expecting sympathy from the older Ranger, she was disappointed. He emitted a short bark of decidedly unsympathetic laughter.

You know, there are some people who might think it was a good career move to show sympathy for their commanding officer's problems," he said. Then he sighed."But very few of those people were trained by Halt.

Erak kreunde. 'Nu weet ik pas hoe mensen zich voelden als ze mij aan zagen komen.

I think Job and I understand each other better now. It was not the boils, but the free advice!

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

Thanks to a skewed court system, the offender gets more sympathy than the victim of his crime. Police officers are put on trial for doing their duty against a criminal with a rap sheet that reaches to the floor. Who's the one who broke the law—the criminal or the policeman? Police officers are investigated while criminals write books that make them rich, famous, and features them on television talk shows.

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.

Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

As a former army officer, he felt he had knowledge the protesters didn't have. Moreover, his brother-in-law, Donald Sampson, had gone to fight in Southeast Asia. Brand wasn't for the war (he considered himself to be on the "psychedelic side" in the political dispute over Vietnam), but he had a basic sympathy for the enlisted men, and he bridled when he heard that protesters were calling them baby killers.

I can understand why they're doing it but understanding isn't the same as supporting.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

So it is not an accident that the Nazi lads vent a particular fury against (Einstein). He does truly stand for what they most dislike, the opposite of the blond beast intellectualist, individualist, supernationalist, pacifist, inky, plump... How should they know the glory of the free-ranging intellect and soft objective sympathy to whom money and violence, drink and blood and pomp, mean absolutely nothing?