658 Quotes About Sympathy

Listen with a heart, but answer with a soul.

World has become a market. In a market, things that don't sell disappear. Love doesn't sell, sympathy sells. Love has disappeared, sympathy is all that is left. We either play victim to get sympathy or we search for victims to give sympathy.

We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.

At that moment I felt that no physical pain could possibly amount to the wrenching one pounding within my heart.

Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body, she felt like disappearing into the thin air, maybe to another mind creating world.

Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.'My plan was indeed to stay there forever.

Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.

It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or arouses a necessary sympathy.

From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque. With this sadness it was different. I felt that I needed to nurture and protect it from people's understanding. I wanted Susy's sympathy because I wanted comfort and to feel less alone, and yet I also didn't want it—I didn't want my personal grief to be part of something universal right then.