Quotes About Sympathy

His pity for them had been overwhelming; but pity was not action.

Dogs are the best mourners in the world, as everyone knows. Joy Williams.)

I get annoyed whenever people try to be sympathetic, and annoyed when they don't.

But, goodness me, poor Theresa! What a dreadful thing to happen in Smithy's Loam!' 'Or anywhere,' Mrs Pargeter observed mildly.

spare me your delight in the greater misfortune of others.' He paused, as a thought struck him. 'There really ought to be a word for that quality since so many people seem to relish the misfortune of others.' Cato cleared his throat.

The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.

Love on the part of someone who is happy is the wish to share the suffering of the beloved who is unhappy. Love on the part of someone who is unhappy is to be filled with joy by the mere knowledge that his beloved is happy without sharing in this happiness or even wishing to do so.

Doremus understood John Brown much better.

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, son as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.

I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between Communism and Nazism, I would choose Communism. I hope not to be called upon to survive in the world under a Government of either of these dispensations. I cannot feel any enthusiasm for these rival creeds. I feel unbounded sorrow and sympathy for the victims.

I feel a hotness behind my eyes. I have no idea why. I don't know why I suddenly feel affected. I want to type I admire you, but I can't bring myself to. Not even by text. Instead, after a moment's hesitation, I type: I understand you.

Oh God, there's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

There's no point in pressing her for details or asking bluntly what happened. Lottie has her own distinct process for dealing with breakups. You can't hurry her and you must not express any sympathy. I've learned this the hard way.

Which would you choose if you could: pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?

I pity you, flinging at me the very insults each man here will fling at you so soon.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune, we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life.

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

In the eyes of the Catholic Church, abortion is a tragedy. Our principle objective must be to try and win greater sympathy for that perspective and for the value of human life from its beginnings.

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

Before complaining about your burden of life, you must first try to see what other people's burden of life is!

Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends.

Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.