Quotes about Sympathy
And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
- George Eliot
They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.
- Napoleon Hill
It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
- Graham Greene
Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
- Oswald Chambers
When pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
- CS Lewis
The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
- Paulo Coelho
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
- Oscar Wilde
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
- Joseph Addison
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
- Harold S. Kushner
Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
- Albert Schweitzer