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Rebecca McNutt _ Perfect Little Angel: A Short
I can't look people in the eye and tell them that they're going to die anymore.
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William Styron _ Darkness Visible: A Memoir of
it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would have been able to confidently depict for their friends and loved ones {even their physicians} some of the actual dimensions of their torment, and perhaps elicit a comprehension that has been generally lacking; such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience.
book-quote understanding pain sympathy
Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Flanders Panel
And only when he'd finished and fallen silent did the vague smile return to his lips, in apparent gentle mockery of himself, of the man he had just described and for whom, deep down, he felt neither compassion nor disdain, only a kind of disillusioned, sympathetic solidarity."
book-quote sympathy solidarity
Cecelia Ahern _ The Book of Tomorrow
A funeral is like a little game, really. You have to just play along and say the right thing and behave the right way until it's over. Be pleasant but don't smile too much; be sad but don't overdo it or the family will feel worse than they already do. Be hopeful but don't let your optimism be taken as a lack of empathy or an inability to deal with the reality. Because if anybody was to be truly honest there would be a lot of arguments, finger-pointing, tears, snot, and screaming.
book-quote life society empathy
Alexandre Dumas _ The Count of Monte Cristo
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.
book-quote relationship sympathy sorrow
Sophie Kinsella _ Confessions of a Shopaholic
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
book-quote mothers parents sympathy
Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the
There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and {another's} situation.
book-quote sympathy thinking
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry _ The Little Prince
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
book-quote empathy sympathy sadness
Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Shadow
I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there.
book-quote sympathy ender jealousy
Jacqueline Winspear _ Journey to Munich
In the months following James' death, on thought had returned time and again as she passed others in the street. What secrets did these people hold? What had they endured? She wondered how many people rushing in and out of shops, or on their way to their work, had lost a love, or known deep disappointment or grief, fear, or want, yet summoned the resilience to go on. Those lines across foreheads, those mouths downturned --- what were the ruts on life's road that wrought such marks, those signs of scars on the soul?
book-quote grief sympathy resilience
Alexander McCall Smith _ The Revolving Door of Life
It is such an easy thing to do-to touch another in sympathy-but it is such a hard thing too."
book-quote sympathy
Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie
He told his friends that if they really wanted to help him, they would treat him not with sympathy but with visits, phone calls, a sharing of their problems - the way they had always.. because Morrie had always been a wonderful listener.
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