Quotes About Sympathy

When the Lord saw her, his heart overflowed with compassion. "Don't cry!" he said. —Luke 7:13

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. —Matthew 9:36

Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. —1 Peter 3:8

True love shows up and shares another's pain. — Brian Varney —

Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep. —Romans 12:15

To say "I care" or "I love you" to someone means nothing unless you can feel that person's pain too. — Brenda J. Young —

Next time the tears roll, remember who cares enough to weep with us. — Ila Reed

When three of Job's friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. —Job 2:11

Love limited to sympathy interferes in the process of overcoming problems. — Virginia Colclasure —

I do not believe," said Wilson, "that any man can lead who does not act … under the impulse of a profound sympathy with those whom he leads—a sympathy which is insight—an insight which is of the heart rather than of the intellect.

Listen to me, he thought. If I were talking out loud, I'd be whining. Derek gets hit and I act like I'm the one getting messed up. It

I'm partial to anyone who looks half blind)

Everything that concerns you interests me greatly, as you will perhaps one day come to appreciate.

Psychopahy is basically the absence of sympathy. There are fewer female psychopaths, perhaps because female psychophats would not have shown sufficient sympathy to their babies in past generations.

Psychopathy is basically the absence of sympathy. There are fewer female psychopaths, perhaps because female psychophats would not have shown sufficient sympathy to their babies in past generations.

It is the people who hate poverty, not those who sympathize with it, who will put an end to it.

I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.... Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

Your mind is a sort of world to me: you can tell me all I want to know. I think I should never be tired of being with you.

There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.

The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life.