My Sympathy Quotes

None of us can choose where we shall love.

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.

But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end.

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but I certainly wasn't a female last time.

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

Laughter means sympathy.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.

No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

You're always supposed to have sympathy for the person you're playing. You should be the one person who does.

A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.

I don't notice any sympathy for them in [ Nicholas Kristof] column. If you're writing a column saying the people for Trump are Nazis and Klansman and North Korean dictators.

Even with the help of anti-Russian propaganda in the mass media, Germany has not succeeded in damaging this sympathy.

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.

The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents to make me clean my room and stuff

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!

When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!

Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd.

Without empathy, there'd be no harmony in diversity

None of us can choose where we shall love...

Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.

Be the person you needed when you needed help.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.

Before you assume, learn. Before you judge, understand. Before you hurt, feel. Before you say, think.

It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.

The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.

We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.

Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.

Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda

I cannot live my life striving only for my own security, I can only feel secure when I see myself useful in other people's life.

Your world is just as empty as your heart!

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.

We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.