658 Quotes About Sympathy

In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they're going to end.

Sympathy is why when a man is getting mugged, you let him keep his shirt after you take his life. Funerals are respectable affairs, after all.

Why do humans always look at these things from the wrong perspective? Predators deserve our sympathy, too.

It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness...

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

Why does finding out someone has pain in their life make you appreciate them more as a human being? Shouldn't we all assume everyone we meet has their own pain?

She doesn't want his sympathy. She hates pity.

I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess’s room.The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone.It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right.I feel like Bud Fox walking into his office with the Securities and Exchange Commission awaiting him.

...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.