Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Sympathy.
You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
Laura Carmichael
Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
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
It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
Alan Hovhaness
There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.
Les Aspin
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn
I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
Terry Prachett
More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.
John Hall
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
Louise J. Kaplan
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edward Gibbon
It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.
Johnny Rotten
Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
J. C. Macaulay
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
Charles Henry Parkhurst
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Pierre Corneille
My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
Agnes Smedley
Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.
Ivor Novello
There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.
Seth Green
