Sympathy Quotes · Page 11

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

— Edward Gibbon

Only when you understand apathy and see beyond sympathy will you achieve empathy.

— Melchor Lim

“You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor.”

— Joe Hill

“One word of sympathy can heal the thousand wounds of heart and soul.”

— Anonymous

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

— Francis Herbert Hedge

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

— W. Sangster

True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“I like spending time with healthy people whose brains are turned on.”

— Dave Asprey

The mutual sympathy of our peoples is and will remain the foundation of our relations [with Germany].

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Anonymous

“Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.' My plan was indeed to stay there forever.”

— Olivia Sudjic

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

— Mercedes Lackey

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man's intelligence...it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it…

— Oscar Wilde

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

— Nina Easton

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave…

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he…

— Agatha Christie

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect…

— Dalai Lama

Empathy is much bigger than sympathy. When the character is empathised with, that means you have succeeded as an actor. So even…

— Neeraj Kabi

“If living sympathy be theirs And leaves and airs, The piping breeze and dancing tree Are all alive and glad as we:…

— William Wordsworth

I have come to know Diana better than anyone else, so my sympathy will always lie with her. But I also have…

— Emma Corrin

“We had, I felt, bared small pieces of our symmetrical souls to each other, fast, as if playing one of those breathless…

— Olivia Sudjic

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions…

— Anonymous

“We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but…

— John le Carré

Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have…

— Aleksandra Mir

It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others.…

— Antonin Sertillanges

“When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale, Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart Exhausted, leans on all that can impart…

— Anna Seward

It's very easy for me to feel sympathy for people who are messed up. It's not that I'm a pseudo-saint or a…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“The family came in to select the arrangements they wanted. The woman whose husband had died was struggling dearly to keep her…

— Christian Millman

“He felt as my papa felt,” Sara thought. “He was ill as my papa was; but he did not die.” So her…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“When she did walk, to the bathroom between the chairs and the customers leaning back in them, oblivious to her manoeuvres, the…

— Olivia Sudjic

Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue…

— S M Frazier

“I couldn't think of a reply except No , so I said, 'Sure.”

— Olivia Sudjic

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

— Alexander Hamilton

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

— Bram Stoker

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

— Irving Babbitt

“Government is not moved by sympathy. It is moved by ingenuity.”

— Enock Maregesi

Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Sorry even your gay friends will now be getting married before you.

— Anonymous

“His mind had no horizon—and his sympathy had no warp.”

— John Steinbeck