My Sympathy Quotes

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

The graveyard is the everlasting home of every man.

With mercy and sympathy, no one will hate to love one another.

To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.

One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.

Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.

Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.

In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.

I felt ashamed for having judged him so harshly without knowing the real boy. His one offense against me―goaded by Charlie’s bullying character―was easy to forgive.

People are already disappointed by their acquaintances, they can not handle anymore hate from stranger, so show some instantaneous kindness and forgiveness to them.

Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.

I recognized exactly where she was—that state where you’re able to hold it together as long as absolutely no one talks to you or touches you with any amount of sympathy.

Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

When your heart is heavy, sometimes it's just easier to retweet the words of another person who seems to know exactly how you feel.

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.

We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.

Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.

Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it

Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.

empathy is more powerful than sympathy

We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by expressing compassion and sympathy for the entire community of life.

Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.

The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his friend.

If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.

Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.

I could really use someone else's smile today.

Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human beingIs forced to fight against himself.

Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care.  The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care.

The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.

I bask in that sympathy because it's nice to have somebody who cares, even if it's the wrong person for the wrong reasons.

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUntil it has been on his back

I had shelved expectations of another kiss

It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.