I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.

While my sister and I were reminded we did not cause this pain, it was knowing that because we broke our silence about what had been done to us, our parents were hurting. That knowledge...

Being a victim is supposed to set you free; it acquits you of any agency, any sense of responsibility to the person who did you harm. It’s not your fault, they say. Leave him, they...

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleasedWith melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;Some chord in unison with what we hearIs touch’d within us, and...

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

Love is the end of sympathy.

I’m not asking you to walk in my shoes; I’d never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?

None of us can choose where we shall love…

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and...

An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.

My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn’t born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, i will hurt his critics by remaining his...

The glory of fame isn’t in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it’s like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.

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...

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.

In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we...

Understanding did not provide solace or make the pain go away; in many ways, understanding was just more salt in the emotional wound. Ignorance allowed one to fight back with unfettered cruelty. Understanding inspired empathy,...

You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to...

Tell any grizzled old cutthroat a sob story about a double-cross and a broken heart and he’ll eat right out of your hand.

Show your compassion to people in their life time; no amount of your tears can serve as compensation when their coffins are lowered!

The kind of love bounded by the sympathy will break down by arrogance.

Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

The death of Robert G. Ingersoll, on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely — noted events of that year in the civilized world. It was also one of the most widely and...

In this hour, Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate, stopped suffering. On his face flourished the cheerfulness of a knowledge, which is no longer opposed by any will, which knows perfection, which is in agreement with...

There has been a tremendous amount of sympathy towards Scott and I haven’t come across anybody who thought it was anything other than an accident. The referee’s view was that he had no choice because...

Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body,...

You cannot fully understand a person’s need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you’ll fall short until you’ve...

There are two ways of life, one leading to righteousness, which brings happiness, and the other to unrighteousness, which produces misery. One leads to kindness, mercy and sympathy, the other to hatred and cruelty; one...

Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness; with Christ it brings compassion.

This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it’s not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on...

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...

We would like to express our sympathy with Muslims who feel insulted or wronged.

Bottled, was he?” Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman’s sympathy for alcoholic excess. “Oh, well, can’t judge a fellow by what he does when he’s drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put...

If you’re looking for sympathy you’ll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

…and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.

We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.

After American titan and presidential father Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a stroke that impacted one side of his body, guests pretended not to notice the impact. Jackie Kennedy, however, held the impacted hand and kissed...

Even a witch wants sympathy.

I’m not exactly sympathetic, but I do have a big heart. I have to, to be able to pump all the blood required to operate my massive penis.

Don’t act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.

The law of sympathy is one of the most basic parts of magic. It states that the more similar two objects are, the greater the sympathetic link. The greater the link, the more easily they...

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him… The land of tears is so mysterious.

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

An empath is capable of taking on the grief of another in order to lessen their suffering. In order to not be consumed with pain, an empath should have an outlet for that pain lest...

I bask in that sympathy because it’s nice to have somebody who cares, even if it’s the wrong person for the wrong reasons.

My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.

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

A compassionate government does not need to pay too much attention to those who don’t have needs. True leadership is to fulfill a need of the needy. People who have needs need attention indeed! Be...

Woman’s fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.–“Wanda

I felt ashamed for having judged him so harshly without knowing the real boy. His one offense against me―goaded by Charlie’s bullying character―was easy to forgive.