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Quotes About Sympathy

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
~ Stanley Kubrick
You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.
~ Ray Bradbury
If you are open with someone, he will be open with you. If you want love from someone, give your love to him. If you want kind and sympathetic behavior from someone, be kind and sympathetic to him.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
~ Quentin Crisp
Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.
~ Rachel
Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith which does not need, but always has, reason.
~ Louis Untermeyer
But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise
~ William Shakespeare
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
~ Anais Nin
The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.
~ Tess Gerritsen
It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.
~ Salma Hayek
Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Compassion and love, that's all.
~ Ram Dass
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
~ Anita Diamant, The Red Tent
Humanity, in toto, and those who compose it as identifiable people deserve some sympathy for the appalling burden under which the human individual genuinely staggers; some sympathy for subjugation to mortal vulnerability, tyranny of the state, and the depredations of nature.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Narrowing your eyes even more while compressing your lips more intensely, if the above topic deals with one of the prospect's pain points. In addition, you'll continue to nod your head slowly while letting out the appropriate oohs and aahs to show that you actually feel your prospect's pain.
~ Jordan Belfort
Não é mau sujeito, esse teu segundo… Muito ao contrário. Sabe, meu bem, cada vez simpatizo mais com ele… Entre nós dois, tu está muito bem servida. Ele para penas e cuidados, eu para a gente vadiar…
~ Jorge Amado
Por entre cabeças se descobrindo ou se inclinando, a recolher gestos e palavras de conforto e simpatia, em meio ao bulício da cidade, gente a passar, a conversar, a rir, dona Flor caminhou com seu buquê de flores destinadas à campa de Vadinho. Ia em direção ao cemitério mas era na vida que de novo penetrava; ei-la de retorno, convalescente ainda.
~ Jorge Amado
True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.
~ Joseph Addison
The ill are damped with pain and anguish at the sight of all that is laudable, lovely, or happy.
~ Joseph Addison
True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation
~ Joseph Addison
You know what kind of a man Lonny Tooker is? The kind of a man that sets broken bird's wings." "Hitler loved dogs and babies," Dave said.
~ Joseph Hansen
The third factor listed by Barlow is specific learning experiences. If a child is given excessive attention when ill, he may continue to use "sick behaviors" as a way to attract attention and sympathy. Similarly, if a child observes a parent or other adults using such strategies, he might adopt them as well.
~ Joseph LeDoux