Sympathy Quotes

• 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.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Music
  • Real
  • Identity

• 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.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Sympathy

• I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • World
  • Great
  • America

• I have huge sympathy for Prince William. He was born into a deeply unenviable life that most of us would abhor, and what's more, he lost his mother at an early age.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Age

• Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • Future
  • Today

• As far as I'm concerned, I own my dogs as I own my body. My legs are with me when I take a shower, and I feel no shame. If I were to lose one, I'd grieve, and people would send sympathy cards, but it would be my condition that evoked the sympathy, not the fate of the leg. That's like losing a dog.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • People
  • Dog
  • Fate

• Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Education

• To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Sympathy
  • Psalms

• It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

  

  Nellie Bly
  • World
  • Kindness
  • Sympathy

• The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Friendship

• At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Feelings
  • Pride
  • Social

• It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Truth
  • Amazing

• I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

  

  Jacoby Shaddix Papa Roach
  • Understanding
  • Sympathy

• No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • True
  • Soul
  • Education

• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Sympathy
  • Fruit

• I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished pioneer in scientific research and education in Bengal as Sir Prafulla Ray. It has been invariably my experience that I could count on his cooperation and sympathy in every matter concerning my scientific work.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• Most people are on the world, not in it - have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

  

  John Muir
  • People
  • World
  • Relationship

• We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Sympathy
  • Determined
  • Sensibility

• His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Should
  • Morality
  • Sympathy

• Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Money
  • Sympathy

• No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Style
  • Artist
  • Ethical

• I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Sympathy
  • Intolerance

• After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Peace
  • Silence
  • Sympathy

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