Quotes About Sympathy

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.

It was one of those moments where you saved me, you made me laugh at just the right time.

Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness. - Camille Preaker

A multichild household is a pit of petty jealousies, this I knew, and the Nash children were panicking at the idea of competing not just with one another, but with a dead sister. They had my sympathies.

And she'd feel sorry for the kids, but not in a way that made her want to help, just in a way that made her not want to look at them anymore.

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.

Hey, things like that happen at the Academy too," I insisted, almost triumphantly. "Last year the freezers failed so there was no ice for"—the wind went out of my sails as I realized how lame this was going to sound—"the sushi bar." He nodded sympathetically. "You guys should get T-shirts made. You know: I Survived the Sushi Crisis.

T]hose who are not by nature hunters side with the hunted.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don't write that as a sneer; there are so many of us who can't)

It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But they can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care.

Nothing makes a person feel worse than knowing you've inspired pity. It's a knife in the chest. A scalpel across the neck.

Shelly never felt bad about anything. At least not when it came to other people's feelings. The girls noticed she'd shed a torrent of tears for dead pets, but never for another person.

Some people always manage to make us feel sorry for them, no matter how stupid and angry we feel about it after.

Will you help us, Lin? We feel very sorry for that bear. Love is a special thing in the world. When two men have so much love in their hearts, even so it is for a bear, it must be protected, isn't it?

Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.

I feel like if you're in a bad situation, and then you see somebody that's even in a worse situation, you feel for that person.

But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?