Sympathy Quotes

Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.

This is why it’s so hard for women to publicly accuse men of predatory actions. The victims are perceived as dramatizing and self-important. They risk not being believed. Or getting blamed. Or having crimes investigated improperly. Or being called selfish, mendacious. Women suffer automatic credibility deficits when leveling such accusations, while men enjoy “himpathy,” -- the “excessive sympathy sometimes shown toward male perpetrators of sexual violence.

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

Let nothing Disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, Though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he lacks nothing who possesses God; For God alone suffices.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 B.C. found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it, either by watching madman or something. But since that time they have used it and it became what is known as Christianity. The man on the cross. There was no Christ. But the man on the cross is shown as Everyman. So of course each person seeing a crucified man, has an immediate feeling of sympathy for this man. Therefore you get many PCs who says they are Christ. Now, there's two reasons for that, one is the Roman Empire was prone to crucify people, so a person can have been crucified, but in R6 he is shown as crucified.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.