I absolutely hate sympathy and, while I appreciate the empathy people feel for me, I want to be as normal as possible. — Rob Burrow Copy Share Image
“He felt that if he could get deep down in himself quickly enough, he would be okay, but sympathy might drive him… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe. — Homer Copy Share Image
But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end. — Daniel Wallace Copy Share Image
“It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness...” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop… — Mette Ivie Harrison Copy Share Image
Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
People loved your mother. She was a blessing on earth. I guess she had finally completed her journey on earth. But she… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. I have supposed,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
Any other illness and you have time off work, but there is a lot of stigma around mental illness. It's frightening to… — Zoe Ball Copy Share Image
Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I gave you sympathy. *I* want sympathy!" "Are you kidding me? You have the sexiest man on the planet wanting you. You're… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
I feel bad for so many guys…getting led on by girls and then getting screwed over. Yet girls are the only ones… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No words can express the sympathy Im feeling for you & your family for the loss youre dealing with. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You'd have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange]. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“She had inhibited her sympathy, one genuine sympathetic impulse would have ruined her.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“The sympathy in his face was painful. “This doesn’t sound like a decision, Cath. This sounds like giving up.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“I watched us without interest, heard us only faintly, like strangers below my window.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Ah can't die easy thinkin' maybe de menfolks white or black is makin' a spit cup outa you: have some sympathy fuh… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I… — Peter Storey Copy Share Image
“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing. Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image