“It was kind of like—I don’t know if I want to get into that. But I do think that it’s interesting when you go through a divorce how everybody divorce is, like, not that special. So people are kind of interested, and then they’re just not anymore. It’s kind of like you get all the pain, but really no…”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“Celie, you has my sympathy. Ain't many women allow they husband's ho to lay up in they house.”— Menno Meyjes, Old Mister, Adolph Caesar, imdb.com
“Even if I wanted to express sympathy, I physically can't.”— Sarah Kucserka, Veronica Becker, Wilhelmina Slater, Vanessa Williams, imdb.com
“Penny: Sheldon, you know, I do understand what you’re going through. Sheldon: Really? Did you just have the Nobel Prize in waitressing stolen from you?”— Steven Molaro, Sheldon Cooper, Jim Parsons, imdb.com
“A surgeon needs to communicate. Not just information, but sympathy, empathy.”— David Shore, Dr. Marcus Andrews, Hill Harper, imdb.com
“For by the word upstart I mean everyone who has raised himself through his own efforts to a social level higher than that to which he formerly belonged. In the case of such a person the hard struggle through which he passes often destroys his normal human sympathy. His own fight for existence kills…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“In this our country has, in my judgment, thus far fulfilled its highest duty to suffering humanity. It has spoken and will continue to speak, not only by words, but by its acts, the language of sympathy, encouragement, and hope to those who earnestly listen to tones which pronounce for the largest n…”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“I never said I hated anyone, but just because I feel sympathy, compassion, and forgiveness for others such as Hitler means I am now a monster? All for trying to open your eyes to the truth that Hitler was NOT as bad as he was painted out to be?”— Tila Tequila, metro.us
“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”— Emily Haines, goodreads.com
“We cannot witness the struggle between the oppressed and his oppressor anywhere without the deepest sympathy for the former and the most anxious desire for his triumph.”— Millard Fillmore, presidency.ucsb.edu
“Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”— Emily Haines, musicomh.com
“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of…”— Yehuda Berg, goodreads.com
“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“I have been told, sometimes, the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over: Other people feel this too.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”— Albert Einstein, amazon.com
“It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com