Quotes About Sympathy

La morale è: non dobbiamo ridere quando siamo contenti noi, ma quando sono contenti loro.

And I could see this boy doing his homework and thinking about my sister naked. And I could see them holding hands at football games that they do not watch. And I could see this boy throwing up in the bushes at a party house. And I could see my sister putting up with it. And I felt very bad for both of them.

all you want is to always feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means that you're happy, too.

She thought she was getting a sympathetic ear. What she was actually doing was giving the next bastard a trail of bread crumbs as to how much shit she was willing to put up with for what grief convinced her was love.

Especially since I know that if they went to another school, the person who had their heart broken would have had their heart broken by somebody else, so why does it have to be so personal?

I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.

There was a man with tongue of wood Who essayed to sing, And in truth it was lamentable. But there was one who heard The clip-clapper of this tongue of wood And knew what the man Wished to sing, And with that the singer was content.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

Frightened people live in their own special hell. You could say they make it themselves, but they can't help it. It's the way they're built. They deserve sympathy and compassion.

I know what you mean, jellybean.

At the bottom of the human well, there should always be a candle of compassion.

To understand a person it takes time but to find a person who understand you takes a life.

The distance between two minds is understanding.

Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are companions, and those who do both are friends.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when u simply don't bother about that person!

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

True love is born from understanding.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

Where there is no love there is no understanding.

I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.