When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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
Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Sometimes you look at footballers and think they're selfish or they don't bring a good image to society. But sometimes people underestimate… — Juan Mata Copy Share Image
“The story she then told was as all attempts at sympathy are: an effort to match in form and size and detail… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
True sympathy is beyond what can be seen and touched and reasoned upon. — Rosa Campbell Praed Copy Share Image
Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I asked to use the bathroom and sat, recovering, on the edge of a marble bath on a dais—the kind Greek husbands… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
The worst nickname I ever had was Tim Pig-ears-Smith. I had big ears. When I was younger, it was more pronounced. So… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
“By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.” — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners? — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have a lot more sympathy for men. I understand that they too are victims of the so-called patriarchy, that their roles… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“You must treat an evil-doer in the same spirit as a doctor treats a patient and develop sympathy for him. It is… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
