Quote by James Joyce

“The human route to sympathy or empathy is a clumsy one but it's all we've got. To understand the consequences of our actions we…

— Anonymous

“There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.”

— George Eliot

“So if the world were a simple place, where the only dilemmas one had to deal with involved a single person in some sort…

— Paul Bloom

“We pass our lives entirely in the search for extravagant adventures; and there is no extravagance with which we are not capable of sympathy”

— Stevenson, Robert Louis

“What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation: of all the conflicts and all the sacrifices…

— Jane Austen

“Empathy is a character trait which ennobles a man.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.

— Paul Eipper

“So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well…

— Susan Sontag

“Some offered such rude comfort as their sympathetic hearts but not too fecund intellects could devise,”

— Sir Hall Caine

“My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That…

— Criss Jami

“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“We only see what interests us, and we have only insight in proportion to our sympathy.”

— Anonymous