#sympathy

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar. ↗

— George Saunders

#character #drama #feel #foster #half

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#battalions #come #single #sorrows #spies

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#camp #during #especially #father #her

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

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life. ↗

— Major Taylor

#confront #deep #deep feeling #every #express

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer. ↗

— William Hull

#alone #approach #asked #attend #bible

She texted me telling me her mom was dying, so I did the right thing and texted her back a picture of my erect penis and said, “Let’s start a new family.”
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dying #family #funny #humor #inappropriate

Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone. ↗

— Anthony Marais

#love

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them. ↗

— Laura Carmichael

#empathy #order #play #sympathy #them

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#come #countries #different #different countries #equally