#sympathy

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#give #great #i #life #people

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion. ↗

— Frances E. Willard

#express #externals #fashion #lightening #lumber

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#more #quickly #recover #smile #than

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#bonds #closer #common #ever #far

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#deduction #direct #inference #intercourse #learn

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ↗

— Ann Landers

#drink #drown #how #knows #people

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#between #create #emotion #equally #incapable

Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#darkness #light #sympathy #weakness #art

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it. ↗

— S. J. Perelman

#bit #bite #helped #him #his

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 It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right.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. ↗

— John Passaro

#helplessness #hospital-scene #sympathy #life