658 Quotes About Sympathy

Sometimes you don't need any advice. Neither any sympathy. Just a patient heart that listens to everything that you're going through.

We live with an almost superstitious belief in our own differences, she said, and Luis has shown that those differences are not the result of some divine mystery but are merely the consequence of our lack of empathy, which if we had it would enable us to see that in fact we are all the same.

Apathy perishes us, while sympathy empowers us.

Little is taught by contest or dispute, everything by sympathy and love.

I even felt a touch of sympathy for the difficulties he had faced in his life, however stupid and repulsive the shape of that life might appear to me.

Love includes in it sympathy, but sympathy may not love.

While a person can accept that seemingly impenetrable obstacles blocked other people’s path, each of us hurt in an exclusive manner, rendering us colorblind to the elongated bands of hard times that loom over other people’s promising zodiacs.

A child is not born with affection, adoration, and kindheartedness. A person accrues empathy and sympathy from experiencing our own pain.

We like to believe ourselves sympathetic, but, in truth, Nature has designed us, perhaps necessarily, to be callous. A murder in Newcastle is of less importance than a cut finger in our own home, and therefore Winifred Mostyn was only mildly interested. All at once, however, the mildness evaporated. In the next column a name had caught her eye.