#sympathy

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#beaten #because #being #could #enough

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

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. ↗

— George William Russell

#endure #human #immortality #infused #into

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long. ↗

— Richard Russo

#because #books #caring #character #going

I'm not looking for sympathy at all. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#looking #sympathy

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#does #end #great #grief #itself

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

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

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

I want to know what it’s like to feel affection, compassion, kindness. I want to touch a wimp. But just a light brush against the clothes. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#humor #sympathy #funny