Top 100 Sympathy Sympathy Quotes
#1. Fucking sympathy. Give him anger. Give him fear. Give him fuzzy-assed unicorns that shit glitter and gold-- just don't give him sympathy. Sympathy sucked a giant sack.
Abbie Roads
#2. Then let no man attempt to number Israel today, but let everyone have a heart of flesh, a heart of tender sympathy, a heart that, like the heart of Christ, reaches out for the salvation of a lost world. [190]
Ellen G. White
#4. But I can't help thinking of the shock I felt when I finally realised it was winter, on exiting Mizuko's apartment. The summer was long gone, but I hadn't noticed until then.
Olivia Sudjic
#5. If people from their own country are killed, they may express surprise, grief, anger, and sympathy. But if ten thousand people are killed in a distant, far-off land, they will not be the slightest bit affected, particularly if it was their own doing.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#6. To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.
J.G. Holland
#7. I saw her note the way I hovered over the various ethnicities on the form. First the 'white' box, then to the airspace over the 'black' box, a kind of momentary hesitation, a protest of stillness, a staring into the abyss of everything I did not know about myself. She, like me, was made of halves.
Olivia Sudjic
#8. You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.
Peter Asher
#10. I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.
Darin Strauss
#11. If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.
John Cheever
#12. The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.
Mona Caird
#13. It remained an open question, how much sympathy love could stand.
Chad Harbach
#14. We are so sorry to hear the sad news. He(She) will be Always in our thoughts, Forever in our prayers Eternally in our memories
Margaret Jones
#15. Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't? ... It's the courage of your own tenderness.
D.H. Lawrence
#16. Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
Winston Churchill
#17. In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine.
Robert Dallek
#18. Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion.
Donald Trump
#19. But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
Lord Byron
#20. Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
Thornton T. Munger
#21. Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.
Edwin Arnold
#23. When you need someone To talk to Or just to be with you Remember there is someone close by That someone is me
Margaret Jones
#24. It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.
Jo Coudert
#25. I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
Fritz Sauckel
#26. Hate often separates those who ought to aid one another, since they are tending toward the same goal, and sympathy binds men together who are forced to do battle with one another.
Guglielmo Ferrero
#27. Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
Andre Gide
#28. Instances can often arise in which the person in question would need the love and sympathy of others, and he would have no hope of getting the help he desires, being robbed of it by this law of nature
Anonymous
#29. She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#30. Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#31. Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. In the last week I felt her withdrawing. What was once everywhere, an ocean I imagined myself to be drowning in, was now barely deep enough to bathe in. I saw her warmth draining away and I couldn't stop it.
Olivia Sudjic
#33. Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.
Greg Gutfeld
#34. It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.
Cheri Huber
#35. I had a fair idea how it felt to get spanked with a large flat surface, and my rump clenched in sympathy.
Rick Riordan
#36. There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.
Niall Ferguson
#38. All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never;
Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.
Paul Gerhardt
#39. I've no sympathy with people to whom things happen. It may be that their luck is bad, but is that to count in their favor? I
Cormac McCarthy
#41. No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
Billy Graham
#42. Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.
Olivia Sudjic
#43. All children ... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.
Thomas M. Disch
#44. I hardly know where I found the hardihood thus to open a conversation with a stranger; the step was contrary to my nature and habits: but I think her occupation touched a chord of sympathy somewhere;
Charlotte Bronte
#45. Their friends had got so old that whenever Connie bought a get-well card she also bought a sympathy card at the same time, to save herself the trouble of going back to the newsagent when they didn't 'get well'.
Liane Moriarty
#46. The whole time I hadn't slept with anyone at university had made it harder and harder to finally do it. Like spending too long on a very high diving board, until finally you have to exit ignominiously, the same way you climbed up.
Olivia Sudjic
#47. I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.
Arnold Bennett
#48. As a kid my heart would break for the villains.
Criss Jami
#49. That was the way with folk; full of sympathy for the plight of others until something was asked of them.
Sam J. Charlton
#50. Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.
Edward Eggleston
#51. There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.
George Eliot
#53. Yes, I think he even has a title. He's like son and heir.'
I turned her words over in my mind as I pretended to play with my phone.
Sun and hair
Son and heir
Sun and air
Olivia Sudjic
#54. Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types.
Olivia Sudjic
#55. Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.
Ilka Chase
#56. The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.
Princess Diana
#57. Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.
Napoleon Hill
#58. Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is every deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, these open the prison by supreme power, by some magic force. Where sympathy is renewed, life is restored.
Vincent Van Gogh
#59. 'Sympathy for the Devil' is just another way of saying 'Compassionate Conservative'.
Stephen Colbert
#60. I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.
Joe Cornish
#61. I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.
Yoko Ono
#62. I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.
Marlo Thomas
#63. This comes with my/our deepest sympathy, and the hope that the dear memories of your loved one and the passing of time will ease your sorrow.
Margaret Jones
#64. There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.
Charles Dickens
#65. When I read it now it's like I have broken into a reality that is not mine, and when I step out of it, as if I had removed my headphones and heard the city again, it is easy to close the door behind me.
Olivia Sudjic
#66. If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise ... then you'll want to join me here in the Wow, I Like No Need of Sympathy Club. Your membership fee is the same as your membership privileges: this book.
Albert Goldbarth
#68. 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
#69. Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.
Wanda
Ouida
#70. This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.
Leo Tolstoy
#71. Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of fear and outright contempt. But mostly it's bred indifference.
Barack Obama
#72. Nor do I in any way approve of the modern sympathy with invalids. I consider it morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
Oscar Wilde
#73. Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate
it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern
France. It is a progressive movement, a reawakening,
of which I expect a lot for the entire civilization.
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
#74. The sensation that had plagued me after graduating, of being on the outside of some mystery, peeking in, returned.
Olivia Sudjic
#75. A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Charles Dickens
#76. If they (the young pilots) are on land, they would be bombed down, and if they are in the air, they would be shot down. That's sad ... Too sad ... To let the young men die beautifully, that's what Tokko is. To give beautiful death, that's called sympathy.
Takijiro Onishi
#77. The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.
Chester Bowles
#78. It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
Alan Hovhaness
#79. The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man ...
Luther Burbank
#80. We can not imaging the pain, You must all be feeling At the loss of Your loving son But just to let you know You are in our thoughts, At this very sad time.
Julie McGregor
#81. A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#82. I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.
Leonard Nimoy
#83. Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?
Diana Gabaldon
#84. I sank back, deeper into the parallel universe I had found.
Olivia Sudjic
#85. Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
Gail Collins
#86. The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
Novalis
#87. There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
Edith Wharton
#88. The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.
Simone Weil
#89. It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.
Madame De Stael
#90. For the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#91. linguist called Alla who advised us, among other things, to treat our more stupid students with sympathy, "as if they had cancer." While
Elif Batuman
#92. My church-inspired conclusion was that she was obviously a proud woman, so if she was anything like me, sympathy would not win her over. After my brother's dissapearance, there was nothing I detested more than people oozing with softly spoken words and hugs that went on way too long.
Jenny B. Jones
#93. I bask in that sympathy because it's nice to have somebody who cares, even if it's the wrong person for the wrong reasons.
Nenia Campbell
#94. It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
Nellie Bly
#95. Never elated while one man's oppress'd;
Never dejected while another's blessed.
Alexander Pope
#97. Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
Bram Stoker
#99. Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Anne Grant
#100. I don't know, apathetic bloody planet, I've no sympathy at all.
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