Quotes About Sympathy

Oh, man," she said. "That didn't, like, take off your real hand, did it?

I held her head to my shoulder, rocking her, rubbing her back. Poor thing, I don't think she knows where to put the whole world.

If you are looking for sympathy, it's betweem shit and syphillis in the dictionary.

If you're looking for sympathy, it's between shit and syphilis in the dictionary." "Sure

If you're looking for sympathy, it's between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

She Just Wants You to Listen" = She Wants You to Focus on Her Feelings, Not the Problem

He had looked up at the scoreboard to watch the replay, and a video of the highlights from his season that Billy Wareham, the team videographer, made the previous day in case Crosby hit 100. It was set to the Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil," a fitting, understated choice.

Have you seen the deer heads on the walls of bars, the ones wearing party hats, sunglasses and streamers? I feel sorry for them because obviously they were at a party having a good time.

The best way to break down that fear is to spend time with somebody, put yourself in somebody else's shoes, understand what the other person is going through.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.

Loving isn't liking and it takes liking to live together.

Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing.

They had sparked a note of sympathy in each other. They had found it easy to talk about their deepest feelings and dreams.

The urge to reach for him, to try to somehow soothe him for the loss of a mother years and years ago was almost irresistible.

We know you are wretchedly unhappy and we cannot do much to ease the pain.

I am so glad I was with you. I am sure no one else would understand. They would have been impatient with me . . . You understand how I feel.

And she had given herself to him, not just from sympathy but with more passion than he had ever known in a woman.

Please, darling, give me that much consolation at least.

I do not expect you to understand, Mr. Cunningham. You do not have the experience to understand what has happened to me, just as I do not have the experience to understand what has happened to you in the course of your life. That is where human empathy comes in, he said. If we did not have it and cultivate it, Miss Westcott, we would not understand or sympathize with anyone, for we are all unique in our experience.

People, like Sybell, believe one can only sympathize with what one has experienced. That is why they are always saying, 'as a mother,' or 'as a wife.' If that were true the world would have to get on without sympathy, for no two people have the same experience. Only a shallow nature believes that a resemblance in two cups means that they both contain the same wine.

Knowing things about people is not the same as understanding them

I wanted to leap up and defend her, perhaps throw my arms around her and protect her, but I just sat there like a nincompoop.

But when we feel we are not understood, there is a sense in which we are homeless. And so we must always provide a home of understanding. There will inevitably be times when we do not understand someone's behavior or a certain response, but we can understand the person.