Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Sorry you can't blame steroids for your genitalia's size and dysfunction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered. — Edmonia Lewis Copy Share Image
“There are advantages to being labeled the victim. You are listened to, paid attention to. Sympathy is bestowed upon you.” — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
“No, you're right. I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity barks. "If you won't at least try… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
There will be no sympathy for Trump from voters if he suffers greatly from COVID-19 and he wouldn't know how to be… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and… — Richard Asher Copy Share Image
“Why does finding out someone has pain in their life make you appreciate them more as a human being? Shouldn't we all… — Dalya Moon Copy Share Image
“Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people. — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“I was worried that if I told her the story, she would identify with it too much. That her sympathy, however well-meaning,… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
“Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care. The point is to make… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Have you ever tried to organise a threesome in real life?' I shook my head. I'd only encountered them in porn, but… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
I wasn't embarrassed that I'd had a stroke, but I just didn't want people to think I was milking it or looking… — Rod Laver Copy Share Image
Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy,… — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“{Letter from Debbs to Eva Ingersoll, husband of Robert Ingersoll , just after the news of Robert's death} We were inexpressibly shocked… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“Like every human being, Alvin was in some measure a machine, his actions predetermined by his inheritance. That did not alter his… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The heart’s egoism sees itself suffering when it sees another suffering and so it learns sympathy, because it can put itself into… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“If the club creates a natural bond among its members, something of that sympathy extends to their families as well. The first… — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy Copy Share Image
He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image