Quotes About Sympathy

If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.

I don't cheer when people lose their lives.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

There were things he wanted to say, grieving things, consoling things, things like that.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

A Book Is a Heart That Only Beats in the Chest of Another. ~Rebecca Solnit on the Solitary Intimacy of Reading and Writing

To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied.

Being heard and understood is "one of the greatest desires of the human heart.

If this dysfunctional family was the best Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone.

Although a good God regrets our suffering, his greatest concern is surely that each of us shall show patience, sympathy and generosity and, thereby, form a holy character. Some people badly need to be ill for their own sake, and some people badly need to be ill to provide important choices for others.

Our sympathies are most required when they seem least due.

You realize how sympathy and antagonism can coexist. You are discovering how many seemingly incompatible emotions can thrive, side by side, in the same human heart.

moment that the parents of one's friends choose to die or go to

She doesn't want his sympathy. She hates pity.

Gentleness was sometimes perilously close to pity.

She settled upon the hound. She met its brown eyes. It blinked slowly in what she liked to think was sympathy. Neither of them wanted to be where they were at the moment.

the sympathy calls had been shot through with a subtle, yet unmistakably morbid glee. The queen had at last been nudged from her throne. It had taken disaster to do it, but still.

Judith, you sound horrible. What's the matter with your voice? Are you coming down with something? Judith shook her head. I'm all right. You sound like you swallowed a frog.

I felt as though a sympathetic hand were tending the wounds where thorns had stabbed me. . .

Kind-hearted observers found her full of pathos, and the less generous despised her.

Compassion does not, of course, mean to feel pity or condescend, but to feel with

By using feminist arguments, for which most had little or no sympathy, as part of their propaganda, the colonialists tainted the cause of feminism in the Muslim world, and helped to distort the faith by introducing an imbalance that had not existed before.83 The

compassion" derives from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning "to suffer, undergo, or experience." So "compassion" means "to endure [something] with another person," to put ourselves in somebody else's shoes