All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I never told you I struggle with depression because I don't want your sympathy — Leslie Copy Share Image
As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
“Instantly I remembered everything I hated about him. But it was, in a way, comforting to know that he had not changed… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids. I consider it morbid. Illness of any kind is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have a certain sympathy with politicians having lived with one. I've seen how no matter how earnest or driven or energetic… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
“Dad wants to talk about her death—he needs to—but unlike the rest of us, who yak incessantly about our feelings, he has… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When someone shares their pain with you openly all you need to do is …to show that you understand their pain, their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground,… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act,… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this… — Mohammed Morsi Copy Share Image
There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that… — Richard Lewis Copy Share Image
It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“I remember talking once on this subject to one of the most beautiful personalities I have ever known: a woman, whose sympathy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If we can step back at times and have the guts to carve doubt in the concrete stone of our certainties, we… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“And yet how treacherous, I thought, after such neutrality, bordering on indifference, and occaisonally open hostility, when the whole city finally seemed… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I’m not arguing that we deserve more sympathy than other folks. This is not a story about why white people have more… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I understand what they felt in Oklahoma City. I have no sympathy for them. — Timothy McVeigh Copy Share Image
