Sympathy Quotes · Page 28

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

— S. J. Perelman

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

— Novalis

“I shall not weep for any of them, nor regret their fate, nor shake one feather in sympathy.”

— Chris Adrian

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

— Edmund White

Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else.

— Saschka Unseld

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of…

— Harold Bloom

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

— Nellie Bly

“Empathy is walking a mile in somebody else's moccasins. Sympathy is being sorry their feet hurt.”

— Rebecca O'Donnell

“How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less…

— Barbara Pym

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a…

— Felix Dennis

There will always be someone that has more than you or is prettier than you, no matter what in life someone will…

— NessaNicolee

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people - they always go away, sooner or later. You can't hold them, any…

— Bruce Coville

The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief.…

— Mona Caird

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and…

— Anne Frank

“I could burn this place down As many times as I'd like in my mind, Without any sympathy For the girl or…

— Matthew Little

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except…

— Abraham Lincoln

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the…

— The Sound of Things Falling

I'll be there for you, I will care for you, I keep thinking you just don't know. Tryna run from that, say…

— Drake

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

— Laurence Sterne

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

— Alex Ferguson

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

— Joe Hill

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

— Lord Chesterfield

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

— Frances E. Willard

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

— Charles Darwin

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

— James Mackintosh

Avoid self-pity, or the pity and sympathy of others. Never allow others to make you feel inferior.

— Anil Sinha

“The street had that sad summertime feeling that you want to push on to see why it hurts.”

— Olivia Sudjic

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

— William Penn

Even after walking 100 miles in someone else's shoes, you cannot judge them if you plan to take their shoes off.

— Marrett Green

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the…

— Thomas Ligotti

I like movies that make you semi fall in love with the villain so you have sympathy for him.

— Megan Thee Stallion

“The emotional question became why Susy had rejected me. I was interested in that shift, from actively wanting to actively not wanting.”

— Olivia Sudjic

Sorry the joy of finding your soul mate will forever be tarnished by the fact that you met online.

— Anonymous

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

— Jonas Gahr Store

There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are…

— Charles Duhigg

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

— Sri Chinmoy

People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too.

— Anita Roddick