Quotes about Sympathy
Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness...
— Jack Kerouac
Nonetheless we understood each other on other levels of madness...
— Jack Kerouac
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.
— Elbert Hubbard
Because Jesus Christ is a man, He feels what we feel. Because He is God, He can do something about it.
— Tony Evans
True friends are always together in spirit.
— LM Montgomery
No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.
— Euripides
Shallow understanding accompanies shallow compassion. Great understanding goes with great compassion.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
— Lou Holtz
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
— Cicero
W. E. B. DuBois, a co-founder of the NAACP, wrote, "Only by a union of intelligence and sympathy across the color-line in this critical period of the Republic shall justice and right triumph.
— Shane Claiborne
What I'm saying is nobody feels sorry for anybody anymore, nobody even pretends they do. Not even the President. It's like it's become unpatriotic.
— Barbara Kingsolver