Quotes About Commiseration

#1. He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn't even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#2. New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.

Herb Caen

#3. She was moved by a kind of commiseration ... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

Kate Chopin

#4. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.

William McFee

#6. I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ... .

Henry Clay

#7. There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

Charles Dickens

#8. We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.

John Keats

#9. No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.

Walter Scott

#10. Our sentimentality toward animals is a sure sign of the disdain in which we hold them. Sentimentality is nothing but the infinitely degraded form of bestiality, the racist commiseration.

Jean Baudrillard

#11. He knew exactly what it was like to lose a child. And that fact wouldn't matter in the least in this circumstance. There could be no commiseration among such people despite the seeming commonality of loss, because it was actually each parent's totally unique hell.

David Baldacci

#12. I did not want to dwell on my past. These people typically wished to swap stories. I had no desire for commiseration.

Penny Reid

#13. I thought then, and indeed have thought ever since, what a wonderful person Max is. He is so quiet, so sparing with words of commiseration. He does things. He does just the things you want done and that consoles you more than anything else could.

Agatha Christie

#14. The Chinese philosopher Mencius believed that man is innately good. He argued that anyone who saw a child falling into a well would immediately feel shock and alarm, and that this impulse, this universal capacity for commiseration, was proof positive that man is inherently good.

T. Greenwood

#15. 'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.

William Shakespeare

#16. We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise Commiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.

Joseph Addison

#17. For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Jasper Fforde

#18. 90. The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God, even when others said You can't do that.

Pauline Creeden

#19. And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me.

Nicholas Sparks

#20. I don't want the whole world, I just want your half.

They Might Be Giants

#21. What we had actually demonstrated was our cowardice, but there is fellowship in that too.

Clifford Geertz

#22. Switzerland felt incredibly narrow, growing up. It was good, in a way. There were so many museums. But it was always a no-brainer that I would have to leave, and I'm grateful for that.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#23. I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.

Leonard Cohen

#24. There is no substitute for victory.

Douglas MacArthur

#25. There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

O. Henry

#26. I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.

John Warnock

#27. I am sure when Cinderella went to that ball, she took a great deal more pleasure in outsmarting her stepmother than in the carriage and the ball dress and the glass slippers.

Gita V. Reddy

#28. The igneo-aerial food. In other words, despite

Nick Lane