My Sympathy Quotes

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the viewer? He is asked to 'see' the future links.

Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

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.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

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 .

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

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

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.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

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

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.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

I ask Thee for a thankful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes, And a heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize.

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.

For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s.

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.