“Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.” — Victoria Schwab 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
To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates… — William Mountford 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
“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
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
The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little… — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam… — Les Aspin Copy Share Image
“Friendship is peace... I shall not speak ill of you or try to ruin you; you will not speak ill of me… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I would walk a thousand miles To feel your hugs and see your smiles But then one day we had to part… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
If someone was like: do you have sympathy for people on Wall Street or whatever, I would generally be like... no. But… — Myha'la Copy Share Image
Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness,… — Chris Wood Copy Share Image
“It was sympathy to them, not empathy. I had to remain silent out of fear of discovery and, as such, being fired… — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose… — Val Plumwood Copy Share Image
“Have you ever truly, keenly felt like you don't know who you are? Do you ever do something and think, Who is… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I crouch beside her bed and stumble through the only prayer I know: now I lay me down to sleep and pray… — Will Christopher Baer Copy Share Image
“From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque.… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“My soul is so lonely, but I'm unwilling to describe that sort of loneliness for you, because I can't divulge the depth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber… — Emily Brontë 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
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 Copy Share Image
People don't want simply to buy the product, they want to have sympathy with the company too. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness — Confucius 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
When you're successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire. — Boy George Copy Share Image
“Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It continues to impress me how fluently Americans, even immigrants like her, speak of their achievements.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“The street had that sad summertime feeling that you want to push on to see why it hurts.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Even after walking 100 miles in someone else's shoes, you cannot judge them if you plan to take their shoes off. — Marrett Green Copy Share Image
Sorry the joy of finding your soul mate will forever be tarnished by the fact that you met online. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like movies that make you semi fall in love with the villain so you have sympathy for him. — Megan Thee Stallion Copy Share Image
“The emotional question became why Susy had rejected me. I was interested in that shift, from actively wanting to actively not wanting.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
