My Sympathy Quotes

...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

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

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

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

I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

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

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.

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

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.

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

In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.

Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.

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

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious.

Barack Obama has exhibited sympathy, if not for the terrorists, then certainly for the Islamic supremacists.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.

I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible.

Men are pigs. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.

If you want sympathy, look for a friend, but if you want honesty, an enemy might be the best friend you ever had.

No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.