Quotes About Sympathy

Cada individuo es un compañero de desconsuelo

I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point

Man interests me only since he has ceased to believe in himself. Wile he was in his ascending phase, he deserved no more than indifference. Now he provokes a new sentiment, a special sympathy: compassionate horror.

However strong in any poet may be the higher qualities of abstract thought or conceiving fancy, unless he can actually sympathise with those around him, he can never describe those around him. Any attempt to produce a likeness of what is not really liked by the person who is describing it, will end in the creation of what may be correct, but is not living—of what may be artistic, but is likewise artificial.

Les souffrances morales, auprès desquelles pâlissent les douleurs physiques, excitent cependant moins de pitié, parce-qu'on ne les voit point.

If you're not in love with him, you can understand him.

In Wahrheit beruhen unsere Sympathien oder Antipathien nicht auf Worten, sondern auf einem gefühlsmäßigen Gesamteindruck. All unsere zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen sind geprägt von so einem umfassenden Gefühl.

But love is not a joke, it also means sharing someone else's pain.

What made a friend a best friend? Did it have to be someone who knew your people, who shared your life outlook or your views on religion or politics? Could it just be someone who could talk and listen and commiserate?

That night when I went to bed, I laid there in the dark and pictured a clothesline full of somebody's else's troubles. I knew for sure there were a lot of them I'd rather pluck off of that line than mine. I imagined what the other troubles might be. There would probably be toothaches and failed math tests. Lost cats and ugly hair. Cheating boyfriends and broken-down cars. But none of those could hold a candle to my troubles, weighing down that clothesline like a sack full of bricks.

That night when I went to bed, I laid there in the dark and pictured a clothesline full of somebody else's troubles. I knew for sure there were a lot of them I'd rather pluck off of that line than mine. I imagined what the other troubles might be. There would probably be toothaches and failed math tests. Lost cats and ugly hair. Cheating boyfriends and broken-down cars. But none of those could hold a candle to my troubles, weighing down that clothesline like a sack full of bricks.

The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way.

How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity.

But of course, she remembered, that was why women were so wonderful; it was their love and imagination that transformed these unremarkable beings. For most men, when one came to think of it, were undistinguished to look at, if not positively ugly. Fabian was an exception, and perhaps love affairs with handsome men tended to be less stable because so much less sympathy and imagination were needed on the woman's part?

The moment one takes to bed he gets sympathy. He may be suffering from a tearing headache or a tooth that makes him cry out; but if he goes about his business, or even flops in a chair, true sympathy is denied him.

Fear mongers make their scares all the more credible by backing up would-be experts' assertions with testimonials from people the audience will find sympathetic.

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

Sometimes you have to set the angle within the match, but you gotta give a reason for one guy to be loved and one guy to be hated.

He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.

I actually believe that the basis of a good relationship isn't liking the same things, it's hating the same things.

A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.

Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.