Sympathy Quotes

When you know someone close to you who are quiet or smaller or missing, seek them out, they may need to be found again. It is most beautiful to turn off our ego and feel true empathy for others. Compassion, sympathy, kindness, empathy, selflessness, etc. are the biggest signs of a person with a good soul and a big heart!

~ Angie Karan

The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Every single good person is a good person for their own sake, not for the sake of humanity, not even for the sake of another human being.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when taken to extremes, a human being can have great concern for other human beings and absolutely no concern for themselves.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Remember how strong we are in our happiness and how weak he is in his misery!

~ Charles Dickens

In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity, for whom we are powerless to offer aid, we are beyond mercy.

~ Dean Koontz

We can never know how much they deserve our sympathy, but we have to give it unreservedly as they are people innately full of the divine who instead choose to behave infernally owing to poor programming.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

~ Criss Jami

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

~ Criss Jami

I'm not asking you to walk in my shoes, I'd never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and over-mastered by fate had been borne in upon her with appalling force.

~ Emmuska Orczy

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

~ Dale Carnegie

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

~ Criss Jami

My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his friend.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me', that I carry within myself all of humanity, that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am the criminal and the saint. I am the child and the adult. I am the man who lived 100000 years ago and the man who will live 100000 years from now.

~ Erich Fromm

Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I could really use someone else's smile today.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated

~ Christopher Hitchens

Be kind, be all sympathy,For each and every human beingIs forced to fight against himself.

~ Sri Chinmoy

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

That was the thing about her. When you told her about an incident where you so badly screwed up, half expecting her to laugh at you in amusement, half anticipating a smirk of disgust, she would hardly express her pity or maybe she did express what she felt, for she would just nod her head, gesturing you to go on... As if it's normal... As if you're normal.

~ Sanhita Baruah

Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care.  The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

~ Criss Jami

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following her. So it was important for her to know that her messages were coming back clear and strong. Yet not even her determinedly bright self-reliance could disguise the loneliness that came from her almost palpably, like a heat haze. She asked for neither sympathy nor help but, like bereaved widow at a wake, she simply wanted company in her mourning.

~ Al Álvarez

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

My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because the truth had the kind of pathos in it that would bring on sympathy in its least bearable forms.

~ Marilynne Robinson

When our sympathy leads to friendship and our friendship leads to love, only few will understand that it is the end of our past.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I mean, you may cause others a spot of bother by your weaknesses, perhaps, but coping with you may possibly increase their strength and sympathy. But if you sin deliberately, even if it seems only against yourself--well--you won't be the only one to suffer. You may even be the one who suffers least.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

~ Oscar Wilde