658 Quotes About Sympathy

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

Pure love will always add more to our lives despite how much giving it takes from our lives. So if we’re living with a deficit, we’re not loving with purity.

You have to be honest, you can't love someone out of sympathy.

Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

Moral growth corresponds with people’s ability to see the world from an ever-increasing number of perspectives and act accordingly.

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

A funeral is like a little game, really. You have to just play along and say the right thing and behave the right way until it’s over. Be pleasant but don’t smile too much; be sad but don’t overdo it or the family will feel worse than they already do. Be hopeful but don’t let your optimism be taken as a lack of empathy or an inability to deal with the reality. Because if anybody was to be truly honest there would be a lot of arguments, finger-pointing, tears, snot, and screaming.

You got that right, buddy," Paddy thought, but what Frost saw was a man nodding his dead in a knowing and sympathetic way. Paddy had learned the trick from a funeral parlor director in Brooklyn.