658 Quotes About Sympathy

She's the sister of bigotry and the daughter of tyranny; she imposes her own emotions onto others, then falsely calls it 'empathy'.

She had inhibited her sympathy, one genuine sympathetic impulse would have ruined her.

All those other gestures of sympathy seemed a little melodramatic to me. My loss was mine and only mine. For the others, it was just a matter of words.

We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.

A person imbued with compassion and self-understanding can readily love oneself and exhibit endless sympathy for all people. A person who is unkind to their self can never transcend their corrupt barriers much less run into the world with open arms enthusiastically embracing humankind and all of nature with uninhibited friendliness and goodwill.

I felt the nauseous shiver in my stomach—everything from rage to empathy to morning sickness—that I had grown used to and now thought of as being love.

Your world is just as empty as your heart!

The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.