Able Quote by E. Nesbit

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

— Jeannette Walls

She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's…

— Edward Rutherfurd

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

— Lillie Langtry

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I…

— Anne Bronte

“No one taps her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness in your…

— Tama Kieves

“She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she…

— Nicole Krauss

Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect…

— Elliot Perlman

“I brought my face inches away from hers and whispered, 'If I were strapped like that, I would hate it, too.' And then I…

— Shani Mootoo

“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“At first she was so inexpressive and indifferent that I wanted to know more about her. I envied that blankness - it was the…

— Bret Easton Ellis

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

— Leo Tolstoy

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

— Ruth Reichl