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Quotes About Sympathy

Importuna coisa é a felicidade alheia quando somos vítima de algum infortúnio
~ H. L. Mencken
You shall have the old home still [adverb, not noun - although Jack was by no means out of sympathy with Stubbs' kind of farm produce].
~ H. P. Lovecraft
You shall have the old home still [adverb, not noun — although Jack was by no means out of sympathy with Stubbs' kind of farm produce] and I shall lead to the altar the beauteous Ermengarde, loveliest of her sex!
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The source of the greatest song is sympathy. Sympathy with Asta Sollilja on earth.
~ Halldór Kiljan Laxness
So deep was her sympathy with little Snow White in joy and sorrow, in happiness and tribulation, that her breast heaved and her eyes were filled with tears; but it was not the bitter, crushed feeling of one who suffers because of the evil men have done him, rather the emotion of one who would willingly live and die for the good that there is in life.
~ Halldor Laxness
You have heart disease, people understand. When the brain gets sick, well, it's almost impossible to comprehend.
~ Harlan Coben
I don't know why, but I decided to walk over to her.… because the lonely can sometimes sense the lonely.
~ Harlan Coben
I don't know if I'm a gay icon or not, but with 'A Taste of Honey,' the audience were so touched by the whole story that it certainly helped matters. The characters were so sympathetic that it was as if you had met them.
~ Rita Tushingham
Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it.
~ Maajid Nawaz
If I gravitate toward someone, I bridge the gap between us somehow, and I accidentally maybe start seeing the world through their eyes.
~ Arca
I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
~ Woodrow Wilson
No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.
~ Franz Schubert
If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine.
~ Sheridan Le Fanu
One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man.
~ Sherwood Anderson
I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them. The 20th Century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility and think about our responsibility.
~ Shinzo Abe
I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.
~ Shinzo Abe
The important thing in this life is to link your sadness to the sadness of others.
~ Shusaku Endo
When a member of my family complains to me of having bitten his tongue, pinched a finger, or the like, he does not get the sympathy he hopes for but instead the question: "Why did you do that?"
~ Sigmund Freud
It's as if I'm taking away his pain and he's taking away mine.
~ Simone Elkeles
You're right, I haven't walked in your shoes. But you haven't walked in mine, either.
~ Simone Elkeles
Para que lo sepas, Lenny, esta no es una cita —Trish dice. —Entonces, ¿qué es? —Soy yo sintiendo lástima por ti, porque eres un perdedor.
~ Simone Elkeles
This overt touch of vanity made me pity him for a moment.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Spite has focus, a keenness that sympathy lacks.
~ Siri Hustvedt