Sympathy Quotes - Page 20

• Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

  Andre Gide

  Real, Great Men, Ill

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• The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Gossip, Grace, Inspire

  Elizabeth Drew (1964). “The Literature of Gossip”

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• Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Believe, Animal, Charitable Work

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• It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Soul, Mind

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• Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Inspirational, Children, Teenage

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

  Vipin Sharma

  Love, Hurt, Heart

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• No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Men, Given

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “Popular Lectures on Preaching”, p.188

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• . . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Leaving, Comfort

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

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• To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible.

  Maureen Connolly

  Impossible, Remember, Forget

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• The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

  Gerald Brenan

  Sorry, People, Waste

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• A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Thinking, Crowds, Reason

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• I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Class, People

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• There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.

  Michael Ealy

  Beautiful, Ambition, Want

  "Michael Ealy Breaks Down ‘Think Like A Man,’ Relationships And His Return To Broadway". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

  Alexei Navalny

  Men, Russia, Political

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• 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

  Honesty, Eye, Writing

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• I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

  Anson Mount

  Character, Care, Clear

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

  William Hull

  Bible, Support, Captains

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• It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost anything which men can do or suffer. For sympathy may be considered as a sort of substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Suffering, May

  Edmund Burke (1823). “A philosophical inquiry, etc”, p.54

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• Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

  Philip James Bailey

  Heart, Men, Rights

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.40

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• To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

  Rebecca West

  Running, Hurt, Lying

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Judge”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

  Margaret Fuller

  Real, Heart, Too Much

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.379, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his Author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.

  Laurence Sterne

  Giving Up, Heart, Kissing

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.82

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• True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

  Hosea Ballou

  Reality, Imagination, Proportion

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• Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

  Isaac Barrow

  Together, Band, Affection

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• A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Brave, Desire

  "The Spanish Drama". Book by George Henry Lewes. Chapter 2, 1846.

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