My Sympathy Quotes

Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

I had no sympathy for drama queens.

Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.

Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.

No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.

You wouldn't see those sorts of decisions given in village cricket, let alone Test cricket. The England players have my sympathy.

Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

There is a kind of sympathy with the Americans who are looked upon as liberators.

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if aware of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.

Sympathy is never waisted except when you give it to yourself.

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

We can not imaging the pain, You must all be feeling At the loss of Your loving son But just to let you know You are in our thoughts, At this very sad time.

We know that you must be very Upset and sad But just to let you know That we are here for you Should you need Help and support At this very sad and hard time That you must be going through

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.

Donald Trump has no sympathy with underdogs. They, including the Palestinians, are just "losers." So he will bring words and action together as Netanyahu wishes.

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.