“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
Sympathy is the bridge between one person and another during the hardest moments. These quotes offer comfort, understanding, and the reassurance that grief and pain, while deeply personal, are also universally human.
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
“I'm not looking for sympathy at all.”
“A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.”
“I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.”
“If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.”
“I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.”
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
“I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.”
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
“I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.”
“When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.”
“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.”
“I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.”
“I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.”
“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”