“Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's just enough… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
When you need someone To talk to Or just to be with you Remember there is someone close by That someone is… — Margaret Jones Copy Share Image
I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if… — Daniel Johns Copy Share Image
From a very young age I'd learned to put on a brave face because of losing my mum. I'd always make jokes… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked… — Henry Ossawa Tanner Copy Share Image
“Don't be wasting your sympathy on me, kid. I did pretty damn well, I'll tell you what. You snag a woman like… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world… — James D. Watson 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
If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“But I will tell you another misery that is not to be denied. In the common, natural course of events physicians, surgeons… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“I lowered my hands and stared at the tiny horse, considering his question. I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“What seemed delicacy in him was usually a way of avoiding trouble; what seemed like sympathy was the instinct to prevent trouble… — Penelope Fitzgerald 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
Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
