658 Quotes About Sympathy

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

I could never really get it. I could never really understand. But I could strive for empathy. I could at least do that.

Unhappiness and the like often inspire us to perform random acts of unkindness.

Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.

It's a rare hurt that can stand under the advice, help, and sympathy generated by upwards of thirty people that care. Callahan loses a lot of his regulars. After they've been coming around long enough, they find they don't need to drink any more.

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

If everyone realized the value of life, the world would be peaceful. The meaning of these words, "Do unto others as you would have them, do unto you," would be understood: It would be practiced.