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1011 Sympathy quotes by 757 unique authors
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In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards, nasty, twisted, deeply…
— George R. R. Martin
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Arsenal's never-improving injury list increasingly attracts curiosity rather than sympathy.
— Pete Gill
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Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as…
— Peter Singer
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I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage.…
— Du Fu
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You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.
— Frances Perkins
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Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.
— Mary Lou Retton
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There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow merely thankful for belief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with, and trust…
— Phillips Brooks
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We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
— James Martineau
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Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness, presents and so…
— Anandamayi Ma
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Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others which is…
— Karl Rahner
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There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
— Harold S. Kushner
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Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be…
— James Madison
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Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one…
— George Washington
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They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes,…
— Anne Frank
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When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits…
— Herman Melville
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But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and…
— Lord Byron
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Sympathy is no substitute for action.
— David Livingstone
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If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds…
— Vaclav Havel
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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need…
— Albert Einstein
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I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on…
— George Saunders
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
— George Santayana
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