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For a while this seemed to do the trick, and I felt that whatever contamination I had helped to spread, the boundaries I had helped to break, sprinkling flakes of myself all over the surface of New York like so much fish food, had been forgiven.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Olivia Sudjic Damage Forgiven New York City Olivia Sudjic Simile Sympathy

Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's own private world of nonresistance, overwhelmed, like creeping ivy, our desire to know worlds beyond it?

~ Olivia Sudjic

Olivia Sudjic Inner Life Introspection Inward New York City Olivia Sudjic Sympathy

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

Olivia Sudjic Humor New York City New Yorkers Observation Olivia Sudjic People Watching Sympathy The Beatles

The glow of the steetlamps sat heavy and thick above me. As I walked aimlessly, in the direction of downtown, I returned to my theories. That Mizuko and I shared the pictorial equivalent of DNA. That a sympathetic magic existed between us, no matter how far apart we were pulled. That we defied physical laws of time and space, waves, gravity, the rules laid down by physicists which governed our physical universe (earthquakes, tsunamis) and physical bodies. And yet somehow our connection had led to the opposite of intimacy. My search had led to its opposite. I had never felt so isolated and disconnected, even from myself.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Olivia Sudjic Connection Disconnected Intimacy Isolated Not Enough Olivia Sudjic Soulmates Sympathetic Magic Sympathy

Tell any grizzled old cutthroat a sob story about a double-cross and a broken heart and he'll eat right out of your hand.

~ Cassandra Rose Clarke

Cassandra Rose Clarke Broken Heart Double Cross Manipulation Sympathy

She was limp and pathetic and woozy and I loved her, I realised, even more because I knew how completely it was doomed.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Olivia Sudjic Doomed Doomed Love Ill Fated Love Love Olivia Sudjic Starcrossed Lovers Sympathy Unrequited Love

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver Mothers Sympathy The Lacuna

We had, I felt, bared small pieces of our symmetrical souls to each other, fast, as if playing one of those breathless card games, and I had pretended to be as moved as I had been the first time I uncovered it all myself, back in East Hampton.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Olivia Sudjic Obsession Olivia Sudjic Soulmates Stalking Sympathy

Yeah!' I said again, widening my eyes and nodding slowly but emphatically to show that she had seen into my own symmetrical soul.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Olivia Sudjic Olivia Sudjic Soulmates Sympathy

To me, it was clear proof of the existence of supersymmetry, the idea that every particle has a partner. She was mine.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Olivia Sudjic Olivia Sudjic Soulmates Supersymmetry Sympathy

Stop Sympathising. Start Visualising.

~ Manoj Arora

Manoj Arora Sympathetic Sympathize Sympathy Visualization Visualize Visualizing Visualizing Success In Your Mind

Love is the end of sympathy.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

M.f. Moonzajer End Love Sympathy

While my sister and I were reminded we did not cause this pain, it was knowing that because we broke our silence about what had been done to us, our parents were hurting. That knowledge was hard on us.

~ Erin Merryn

Erin Merryn Abuse Survivor Child Abuse Child Sexual Abuse Empathy Family Pain Pain In Others Survivor Sympathy Trigger

I do not need your sympathy or condolence; if I am an atheist, there are reasons for that and those reasons are thoughtful, unselfish and conscious.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

M.f. Moonzajer Atheist Condolence Consciou Reasons Sympathy Thoughtful Unselfish

Suddenly I had to laugh. It was like realising you definitely need to projectile vomit when you thought you had it under control in some imprisoning form of public space.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Olivia Sudjic Laugh Olivia Sudjic Sympathy Uncontrollable Vomit

It's hard to explain how an infatuation actually starts. It's a state so all-encompassing that it's almost impossible to remember how it felt to live inside your own head before it began. Everything that precedes it becomes a pathway that was always leading there. Time before is valuable only as a resource with which to create a persona, to bind the object of the infatuation closer. I had given my (partially fabricated) past life to Mizuko to make a story that in the end never got told. Or not by her. It is also hard to explain the intensity of the infatuation itself. There is rarely an explanation that seems reasonable to anyone but you. Unless you're part of a cult or viral phenomenon, so that when you weep outside the object of your infatuation's hotel room, you do so in the company of millions.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Olivia Sudjic Hysteria Infatuation Obsession Olivia Sudjic Sympathy

There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.

~ Solange Nicole

Solange Nicole Ableism Als Aspergers Autism Cancer Disability Quotes Disease Epilepsy Sympathy

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

~ William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Sympathy Without Mourn

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

~ Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett Sympathy Balance Injustice

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

~ Helmut Kohl

Helmut Kohl Deep Sympathy Political

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

~ Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine Eyes Sympathy Help Others

Grief is the price we pay for love.

~ Queen Elizabeth Ii

Queen Elizabeth Ii Sympathy Grief Price

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

~ Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo Sympathy Loss You

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

~ William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth Flower Sympathy Grass

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie Ten Boom Today Sympathy Tomorrow

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.

~ Donald Trump

Donald Trump Children Good Sympathy

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

~ Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill Kindness Wisdom Sympathy

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

~ Trai Byers

Trai Byers God Sympathy Empathy

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

Billy Graham Sympathy Think You

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

~ Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc Life Sympathy Sun

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

~ Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami Sympathy Live You

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

~ Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Sympathy Sorrow Misery

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

~ Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust Sympathy Grief Mind

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

~ Michael Gove

Michael Gove Children Culture Sympathy

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

~ Robert Southey

Robert Southey Sympathy Loss Friend

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

~ Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson Sympathy Grief You

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

~ Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Experience Sympathy Europe

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

~ Robert Browning

Robert Browning Autumn Sympathy You

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas Sleep Sympathy Wine

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

~ Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton Sympathy Compassion Vision
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