The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“It's hard to explain how an infatuation actually starts. It's a state so all-encompassing that it's almost impossible to remember how it… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The law of sympathy is one of the most basic parts of magic. It states that the more similar two objects are,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“If you are rich and full-fed, don’t laugh at the impulsiveness of the poor. They were not acting from their souls, but… — Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi Copy Share Image
To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance. — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I want you to know that whatever problems you're having, I'm here to read about it on Facebook. — Anonymous 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
I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
“A dog can be a ‘significant other’ as it infuses a magic fluid stream of oxytocin, trust, ease, and patience; and transforms… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Fess up, 'Hunger Games' fans: Does anyone care about Peeta or find him attractive? He's the Ron Weasley of the series: he… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
At times like this There's not a lot that words can do To help ease your pain and sense of loss And… — Margaret Jones Copy Share Image
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you… — Sophie Swetchine 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
Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others. — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“In the last week I felt her withdrawing. What was once everywhere, an ocean I imagined myself to be drowning in, was… — 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
“There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
People do get hurt by jellyfish, as they do by sharks and spiders, and I have great sympathy for the anguish and… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
