Quotes About Sympathy

When absorbing the sadness of the loss, we must concentrate on bad guys to demonize, or black holes of sympathy in which we get to play the cosmic victim of terrible circumstances. Demonizing and victimizing are the sources of those stories in which we can get so woefully stuck

I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess's room. The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone. It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right. I feel like Bud Fox walking into his office with the Securities and Exchange Commission awaiting him.

That constriction of discourse cannot be unconditionally accepted, but the problem in condemning it at the present time is that the group most determined to bring about change is also the one it is most difficult to have any sympathy with: the Islamists.

The moral regeneration of mankind will only really commence, when the most fundamental of the social relations [marriage] is placed under the rule of equal justice, and when human beings learn to cultivate their strongest sympathy with an equal in rights and in cultivation.

The most we can ask, the least we can give, is pity.

It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness...

I shall pray to God to send charity to this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish on the body....And I shall pray Him, too, that the hearts of the self-righteous may be broken...

For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.

Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

laugh and the world laughs with you. weep and weep alone

Since Jesus came to dwell with us, we know that God is acquainted with our trials, and sympathizes with our griefs. Every son and daughter of Adam may understand that our Creator is the friend

Then let no man attempt to number Israel today, but let everyone have a heart of flesh, a heart of tender sympathy, a heart that, like the heart of Christ, reaches out for the salvation of a lost world. [190]

In view of this human distress, and of the fact that the afflicted friends could mourn over the dead while the Saviour of the world stood by,--"Jesus wept." Though He was the Son of God, yet He had taken human nature upon Him, and He was moved by human sorrow. His tender, pitying heart is ever awakened to sympathy by suffering. He weeps with those that weep, and rejoices with those that rejoice.

It is Satan's work to fill men's hearts with doubt. He leads them to look upon God as a stern judge. He tempts them to sin, and then to regard themselves as too vile to approach their heavenly Father or to excite His pity. The Lord understands all this. Jesus assures His disciples of God's sympathy for them in their needs and weaknesses. Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul, but the throb vibrates to the Father's heart.

Jesus did not begin His ministry by some great work before the Sanhedrin at Jerusalem. At a household gathering in a little Galilean village His power was put forth to add to the joy of a wedding feast. Thus He showed His sympathy with men, and His desire to minister to their happiness. In the wilderness of temptation He Himself had drunk the cup of woe. He came forth to give to men the cup of blessing, by His benediction to hallow the relations of human life. From

Judy's friend that she has known the longest has just broken up with her boyfriend and is depressed. Judy likes her more now that she is depressed and feels unmotivated in life. Judy feels unmotivated in life.

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

Anyone who is hateful rather than loveful is most likely to be discourteous. That is to say, he or she is most probable to be rude and as well to lack consideration, sympathy and respect for others. Therefore, be loveful for life and never hateful. ~Emeasoba George

True love/compassion/sympathy is ever required of you and everyone else in order to make the world a better place. Oh! Yes, anyone who lacks any of the above virtues is just cruel or inhumane. You can say I said so.

True love/compassion/sympathy is ever required of you/everyone in order to make the world a better place. Oh! Yes, anyone who lacks any of the above virtues is just cruel/inhumane. You can say I said so.

Chatter: any conversation with someone who has not suffered.