Quotes about Sympathy
No—the trampling, driving extravert, the one who always feels impelled to Do Something and is never inhibited by doubts or qualms, by sympathy or sensibility.
- Aldous Huxley
I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
- Dorothy Day
Human sympathy has its limits.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Similarly we are seldom sorry for those who need and crave our pity--we reserve this for those who, by other means, make us exercise the
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade
- F Scott Fitzgerald
When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.
- Robin Jones Gunn
No one knows the weight of another's burden
- Liz Curtis Higgs
Job endured everything — until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I had been blind to the pain of others until I had my own burden to carry.
- Alice Hoffman
A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not. What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.
- Alice Hoffman
Who would have guessed you'd be crying over that old hay bag." But that wasn't it at all, Elinor saw that from the look on his face when he turned to her. That was the attachment, that was the way he held on to her.
- Alice Hoffman