My Sympathy Quotes

We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

In terms of the New Testament the Jews must suffer, therefore we will put it into practice if we will in charge and there will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.

Mr. Complete Lack of Sympathy

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies.

There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.

How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

A sympathy in choice.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.

Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one's life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness .

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.