#sympathy

Sympathy is why when a man is getting mugged, you let him keep his shirt after you take his life. Funerals are respectable affairs, after all. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #robbery #sympathy #funny

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#relationship #sorrow #sympathy #the-count-of-monte-cristo #men

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. ↗

— Aeschylus

#great #grief #joy #memory #pain

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#anyone #arrested #basis #everyday #hardly

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#does #ears #eyes #feet #hands

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#believe #brother #brothers #down #faith

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. ↗

— William Blake

#excessive #joy #laughs #sorrow #weeps

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#different #dwellers #each #feelings #habits

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#halls #i #learnt #lecture #lessons

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

— Nellie Bly

#how #kindness #little #only #realizes