Sympathy Quotes

At first, sending the confession by real mail had felt like a genius device. I would not have to sit by my phone and watch for the signs that indicated it had been sent and seen. Slim but solid paper would, I hoped, convey me better. Now I had to consider the very real frailties of the system. Ludicrous, in fact, to entrust something of such magnitude to a mailman. A perfect stranger. I looked up stories of nefarious New York mailmen. There was one who has willfully upturned the lives of ordinary people like myself by hoarding 40,000 pieces of undelivered mail. The city was crawling with thieves and malcontents.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Email is the scourge of our age,' said Silvia. 'Email and cancer.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Maybe, as Mizuko said, we won't even really die, just carry on in the feedback loop we are stuck in. Instead of connecting with new things, widening our worlds, algorithms have shrunk it to a narrow chamber with mirrored walls.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

And the tiresome part of sorrows is that they do not hurt in proportion to their validity and excusability. If we are to be sympathetic, we can remember always that silly suffering hurts just as much as sensible suffering.

~ Menie Muriel Dowie

We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

~ E.m. Forster

I found it hard to write the bits where the things that were at first surprising or even shocking became normal incrementally until I couldn't see that they were anything but normal, because everything else had shifted just one centimetre here and one centimetre there, moving at the speed fingernails grow, until finally everything just clicked into exactly the wrong place.

~ Olivia Sudjic

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

~ Sophie Kinsella

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

~ Maya Angelou

When you know the truth about a person then they become real to you, not just a face that you can forget.

~ Drea Damara

Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to his feel ins and ideas. You will be able to authentically and honestly say, I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were in your position, I would feel just as you do.

~ Dale Carnegie

Without empathy, there'd be no harmony in diversity

~ Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.

~ Jackson Galaxy

An empath is capable of taking on the grief of another in order to lessen their suffering. In order to not be consumed with pain, an empath should have an outlet for that pain lest they lose themselves in feeling for others.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess’s room.The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone.It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right.I feel like Bud Fox walking into his office with the Securities and Exchange Commission awaiting him.

~ Johna Passaro

Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

~ Charlotte Brontë

He told his friends that if they really wanted to help him, they would treat him not with sympathy but with visits, phone calls, a sharing of their problems - the way they had always.. because Morrie had always been a wonderful listener.

~ Mitch Albom

Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.

~ Auliq Ice

I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes

~ Rawi Hage

George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen's suddenly dark and haunted eyes.

~ Mette Ivie Harrison

After American titan and presidential father Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a stroke that impacted one side of his body, guests pretended not to notice the impact. Jackie Kennedy, however, held the impacted hand and kissed the affected side of his face, facing his disability and giving him the courage to do so.

~ Sally Bedell Smith

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

~ Orson Scott Card

Even a witch wants sympathy.

~ Franny Billingsley

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.

~ D.h. Lawrence

She told me it was unlucky to share a reading with others, but the main point, the one I don't mind mentioning because it seems relevant to the story, is that she said I had a kind of evil spirit following me. 'Obviously,' she added, 'that sucks. But if we get you some amber—

~ Olivia Sudjic

I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

~ Justin Timberlake

...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.

~ M.h. Rakib

Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the highest form of sympathy. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with suffering is the least fine mode. It is tainted with egotism. It is apt to become morbid. There is in it a certain element of terror for our own safety. We become afraid that we ourselves might be as the leper or as the blind, and that no man would have care of us. It is curiously limiting, too. One should sympathise with the entirety of life, not with life's sores and maladies merely, but with life's joy and beauty and energy and health and freedom.

~ Oscar Wilde

No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .

~ Olivia Sudjic

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

~ Emily Post

I couldn't decide what kind of person she was, whether she was one of those insects that look exactly like wasps but aren't . . . I just wanted to know if she would sting.

~ Olivia Sudjic

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

I saw a doctor. I went in case there were any remnants of the summer inside me—sticky, slender fish bones that needed to be scraped into the bin. He was dismissive of my concerns and said my body would have let me know by now. Did I have what was known as female intuition? I said I'd had my feminine intuition somewhat scrambled in the past.

~ Olivia Sudjic

I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.

~ Olivia Sudjic

He kept telling and I kept repeating “I Know” sometimes people doesn’t need answers, they just need you to hear them what they say, make them that they are heard, Vijay was like that, he doesn’t need any one sympathizing to him, he just needed people to listen to him.

~ Shaikh Ashraf

The kind of love bounded by the sympathy will break down by arrogance.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I like interesting myself in the lives of others. God put these people in my life for a reason. Maybe for my learning. Hopefully to help them. I like it when I can help. My heart aches for those who suffer and walk a difficult path.

~ Kirn Hans