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"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary."
— David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)

tags: sympathy

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"None of us can choose where we shall love..."
— Susan Kay (Phantom)

tags: empathy, love, opera, passion, phantom, sympathy, understanding

53 people liked it

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?"
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: empathy, human-nature, miracle, sympathy

22 people liked it

"Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it."
— Justin Timberlake

tags: moving-on, sympathy

7 people liked it

"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 change."
— Sue Grafton (T is for Trespass)

tags: baby, change, drama, grafton, kinsey, milhone, poor, sue, sympathy

7 people liked it

"one thing I don’t need
is any more apologies
i got sorry greetin me at my front door
you can keep yrs
i don’t know what to do wit em
they don’t open doors
or bring the sun back
they don’t make me happy
or get a mornin paper
didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars
cuz a sorry."
— Ntozake Shange (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf)

tags: apologies, apology, forgiveness, independance, strength, sympathy

5 people liked it

"There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
"
— William Cowper

tags: music, sound, sympathy

2 people liked it

"Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men."
— Frank Harris (Oscar Wilde)

tags: humanity, sympathy

1 person liked it

"Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load."
— Charles Henry Pankhurst

tags: sympathy

1 person liked it

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