658 Quotes About Sympathy

Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical soul.

Dislike is much easier to handle than sympathy.

It was to do with the glazed look that always comes over me when faced with somebody who has offended or hurt me and yet whose approval I want.

I couldn't think of a reply except No, so I said, 'Sure.

Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types.

Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.

Yes,' she said, her nod and smile so American and so misleading. 'You are not supposed to be here—you're supposed to be there.

It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.