Quotes About Sympathy

Anyway nonna, grandmother, and everyone else has more sympathy for a whiff of failure than for the smell of new money.

People do understand the language of the heart, you know, even if the head does not always comprehend it.

The best way to cope with pain was to pass it on to someone else.

Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds to a light-house.

And I really do think if you'd been there to see what I saw, and feel what I felt, the same might have happened to you.

Mitleid mit den Thieren hängt mit der Güte des Charakters so genau zusammen, daß man zuversichtlich behaupten darf, wer gegen Thiere grausam ist, könne kein guter Mensch seyn.

Compassion is the basis of all morality

Fundamental disposition towards others, assuming the character either of Envy or of Sympathy, is the point at which the moral virtues and vices of mankind first diverge.

Lo que la lluvia es para el fuego, eso es la lástima para la ira.

???? is selfishness, ????? is sympathy.

Si un Dios ha hecho ese mundo, yo no quisiera ser ese Dios. La miseria del mundo me desgarraría el corazón.

Ammu quickly learned to recognize and despise the ugly face of sympathy. They...gloated. She fought off the urge to slap them.

That's not my problem" is possibly the worst thing people can think

Some attendings shook their heads in sympathy.

I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.

Poor souls. I feel so sorry for them.

Qué es el amor? —preguntó Adèle mientras miraba la luna como si buscara la respuesta en el cielo. —Es la simpatía de las almas —susurró el abogado con una voz que parecía proceder del viento.

Forse è un destino assumere su di noi le altrui sofferenze, e che, in più, ciò accada proprio quando in solitudine si cerca di sottrarsene.»

You jumped but I'm falling too.

Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - total passion for the total height - you're incapable of anything less.

Love is reverence, worship, glory, and the upward glance. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love–the total passion for the total height–you're incapable of anything less..

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Shared joy is increased; Shared pain is lessened.

Evsei Slonim would have seen himself as a member of the intelligentsia, a classless class whose features Nabokov described asthe spirit of self-sacrifice, intense participation in political causes or political thought, intense sympathy for the underdog of any nationality, fanatical integrity, tragic inability to sink to compromise, true spirit of international responsibility.