Quotes by Sympathy Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. Thomas Noon Talfourd heartsympathymen No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. Thomas Carlyle toleranceunderstandingsympathy Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart. Thomas Paine condolencesheartsympathy I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose. Tim Kaine winningsympathygiving Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them. Timothy Keller helping-otherschristiansympathy September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. Tom Ford sympathyhistoryamerica I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes. Tom Perrotta honestyeyesympathy When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. Toni Morrison painsufferingsympathy To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own Tryon Edwards griefgrievingsympathy If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation. Vaclav Havel sadrealsympathy To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections Val Plumwood naturesympathyrelationship Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. Victor Hugo sorrowdoesympathy Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you. Vipin Sharma hurtsympathylove If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate. Virchand Gandhi haterevengesympathy Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction Virgil afflictionsufferingsympathy Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. Vincent Van Gogh wedding-anniversarysympathylove Tears are the silent language of grief. Voltaire griefcondolencessympathy No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men. W. C. Fields forgivingsympathymen Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink. W. H. Davies beerfoodsympathy And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. Walt Whitman leaves-of-grassfuneralsympathy«1920212223242526272829»
