658 Quotes About Sympathy

You can't give love and nor you can demand it. If it goes, to anyone, you have no more control, if you can control, it is not love, but just sympathy.

empathy is more powerful than sympathy

I can’t hate him. All I feel is sympathy for the devil who has crawled inside my heart, stealing my soul and my will from me.

Government is not moved by sympathy. It is moved by ingenuity.

Serikali haibabaishwi na huruma. Inababaishwa na akili.

Serikali haiendeshwi na huruma. Inaendeshwa na akili.

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.

Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.''And not a single coin are they donating', said Dina.'That's not surprising. Pity can only be shown in small doses. When so many beggars are in one place, the public goes like this' - he put his fists to his eyes, like binoculars.

The story she then told was as all attempts at sympathy are: an effort to match in form and size and detail what another has known: to hold one experience next to another the way lovers and children match fingers and hands, as if these two, side by side, are linked by their likeness, are both identical and unique.