Quotes about Sympathy

"It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world."

"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."

"As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them."

"NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians."

"There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy."

"The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age."

"I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

"Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal."

"Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow."

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

"Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told."

"It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant."

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."

"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."

"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."

"Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again."

"Labor should be recognized as entitled to consult with management in the mutual interest. Labor cannot be driven, and business cannot be successful unless the men employed in it are enthusiastic and loyal. That loyalty cannot be obtained with a big stick; it must be based upon fair dealing and sympathy."

"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired."

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

"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."

"Grief is only the memory of widowed affections."

"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left."

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

"I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy."

"In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves that our lives are in sympathy and solidarity with the victims."

"Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell."

"What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness."

"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."

"True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them. -Robert Baden"