#sympathy

I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it. ↗

— Edward Norton

#acting #always #certain #confused #emotional

Grief changes shape, but it never ends. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#changes #ends #grief #never #shape

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

#evils #greatest #growth #hammer #i

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beauty #bias #bourgeois #capitalism #creativity

Why do humans always look at these things from the wrong perspective? Predators deserve our sympathy, too. ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#predators #sympathy #dating

I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#sympathy #synthetic #dreams

Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the highest form of sympathy. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with suffering is the least fine mode. It is tainted with egotism. It is apt to become morbid. There is in it a certain element of terror for our own safety. We become afraid that we ourselves might be as the leper or as the blind, and that no man would have care of us. It is curiously limiting, too. One should sympathise with the entirety of life, not with life's sores and maladies merely, but with life's joy and beauty and energy and health and freedom. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#sympathy #beauty

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#love #morality #sympathy #love

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ↗

— Confucius

#feel #oppression #should #sink #sorrow

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

— Helmut Kohl

#deep #each #mutual #only #other