Sympathy Quotes - page 3

Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop (or prevent, "empâecher", Fr.) men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration (or "sympathy", - "commisération", Fr.) for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas ("par l'association d'idées", Fr.) - habit. (African Spir)
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed. View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine. View quote
Mary Shelley
It seems to me that dominant cinema seems to require an empathy or a sympathy between the film and the audience which is basically to do with the manipulation of the emotions and it seems to me again -- and this is a very subjective position -- that most cinema seems to trivialise the emotions, sentimentalising or romanticising them. View quote
Peter Greenaway
I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long. View quote
Richard Russo
The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr. View quote
Thomas Szasz
By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places - whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest - where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
She wanted-what some people want throughout life-a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me. View quote
Mike Tyson
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. View quote
Emma Goldman
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
We are discovering that natural philosophy needs bonds of sympathy as well as precision of intellect. View quote
Theodore Roszak
I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes. View quote
Tom Perrotta
I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world. View quote
F. W. de Klerk
There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly. View quote
Charles Duhigg
... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens. View quote
Shannon Hale
I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it has been. I mean, I love much of that tradition. But somehow, that just didn't speak to me in the way that it does to some. (Elaine Pagels)
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. View quote
Charles Henry Parkhurst
All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy. View quote
Robert Anderson
A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy. View quote
Morris Raphael Cohen