Sympathy Quotes

Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.