#sympathy

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#baldness #foolish #grief #hair #less

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink. ↗

— W. H. Davies

#generosity #lack #men #sympathy

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#each #failings #faults #find #follies

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. ↗

— John Irving

#console #fact #how #i #in fact

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. ↗

— Washington Irving

#dead #effect #elevate #mind #natural

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#concern #demands #giving #impersonal #little

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#historian #humanity #like #look #must

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#damage #done #emotionally #i #learn

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#because #between #call #certain #comes

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. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#foreground #growing #i #into #life