#sympathy

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#acutely #alive #been #certainly #grand

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#give #great #i #life #people

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#ethics #morality #needs #religion #sociality

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#bonds #closer #common #ever #far

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests. ↗

— George William Norris

#account #biased #interests #judgment #often

I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess’s room. The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone. It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right. I feel like Bud Fox walking into his office with the Securities and Exchange Commission awaiting him. ↗

— John Passaro

#helplessness #hospital-scene #sympathy #life

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#already #been #before #definitely #having

If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate. ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#hate #jainism #love #sympathy #thought

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beauty #bias #bourgeois #capitalism #creativity

Why do humans always look at these things from the wrong perspective? Predators deserve our sympathy, too. ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#predators #sympathy #dating