Sympathy Quotes

In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponent...

Robert Dallek

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

Robbie Robertson

I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.

Susan Bysiewicz

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

Seth Green

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.

Siri Hustvedt

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

S. J. Perelman

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

Stephen Rodrick

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

Tim Crouch

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

Tim Kaine

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

Thomas Ligotti

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

Thomas Moore

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Terry Pratchett

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

Tom Perrotta

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Voltaire

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

William R. Alger

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

William Blake

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Washington Irving