One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.

I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

'Ninnu Kori' urges us to take a broader view of life, look past stumbling blocks, and rise above self sympathy.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

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

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them. But animal rights fanatics do not have a point. They are the sort of people who threaten human beings in their effort to 'defend' animals.

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

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.