658 Quotes About Sympathy

The heart’s egoism sees itself suffering when it sees another suffering and so it learns sympathy, because it can put itself into another’s place; then the heart comes a little way out of its egoism and tentatively encounters the world. But, before the prospect of its own suffering, the heart melts completely and retreats into egoism, again, to protect itself.

My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because the truth had the kind of pathos in it that would bring on sympathy in its least bearable forms.

You can have all the sympathy in the world," she said, "just don't feel like you have to wrap your life around it.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.

A human life is a story told by God.

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.