Quotes About Sympathy

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

Don't need to love someone to be compassionate.

And so they discussed it seriously, Abbie who knew that one may laugh with a child but at him, and Laura, who knew that Grandma was one unfailing source of sympathy and understanding in a world which was beginning to be critical.

Many hands were willing to perform the last tender ministrations. It is characteristic of the small town and rural districts. Sympathy there takes concrete form. It becomes cakes and cinnamon rolls and sitting up nights, husking corn and washing dishes and closing the eyes of the neighboring dead.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

I feel your pain.

You know where you find sympathy? In the dictionary between shit and syphillis.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

There are two classes of women in Soviet Russia. There is the professional class, which has taken the place of the nobility and includes government officials, artists, doctors, composers and writers as well as former members of the old nobility whose sympathy is with the Soviets, and also the peasant class.

Simpatico, it's Italian for 'sympathetic.' Hearts beating to the same pulse. That's what music does for one, you know—I mean, for two. For more. It trains hearts to lean in the same direction. Sympathetically.

It's said that if we can drop the bothersome appendages of egos and sugar lumps, we will begin to feel an immense caring for others, for otherness, for all kinds of suffering, and in doing so, we will be able to exchange ourselves for others. If we try, strange sympathies will fill us and the power of empathy will fuel us forward.

Show pity I beg you... We have today been struck down by fortune But tomorrow it may be your own turn to die.

But if someone really cared, well they'd take the time to spare, a moment to try and understand, another one's despair

Ale Sofia, wspóÅ'czujÄ…ca, o?ywiÅ'a go czÄ…stkÄ… swej duszy...

C'est ainsi, l'un près de l'autre, pendant que Charles et le pharmacien devisaient, qu'ils entrèrent dans une de ces vagues conversations où le hasard des phrases vous ramène toujours au centre fixe d'une sympathie commune.

Astea nu m? privesc pe mine; ?i nu vreau s? te descarci pe mine de necazurile dumitale.

I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one." C. S. Lewis

There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn't-eat.